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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of VLC build failures
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:14:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140225191428.6da48255@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530C4314.4000203@mind.be>

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:15:32 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  My feeling is that vlc is currently not in a state that we can release
> it. I have no issue with including some package that doesn't work very
> well in a release, but for a flagship package like vlc I think it's
> important that we really get it right. And currently we don't.

That's fine with me, mark it as "depends on BR2_BROKEN" for example.
Add a big fat comment above it that details all the reasons you listed
in your e-mail, so that the next people interested in vlc will find out
precisely why it's marked as broken.

What however annoys me is that we don't have a clear adopter/maintainer
for this package. Simon said he initially did the work, but that he is
no longer interested in the package. So what I fear is that the package
may remain in a broken state for quite a while.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23  7:30 [Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2014-02-22 Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 10:00 ` [Buildroot] Analysis of build failures Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 10:16   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-23 10:56     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 15:45   ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-02-23 23:46   ` Ezequiel García
2014-02-24 21:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-24 21:18       ` Ezequiel García
2014-02-26 21:10         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-24 10:12   ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2014-02-24 10:30     ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2014-02-25  7:15   ` [Buildroot] Analysis of VLC " Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-25 15:17     ` Simon Dawson
2014-02-25 16:58       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-25 20:25         ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-02-25 18:14     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-02-25 21:08   ` [Buildroot] Analysis of " Samuel Martin

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