From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:01:38 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2018-02-25 In-Reply-To: <20180226154724.4e87f072@windsurf.lan> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:47:24 +0100") References: <20180226070010.28C8620727@mail.bootlin.com> <20180226113319.7e3bcf6b@windsurf.lan> <87fu5nsyrg.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20180226140029.45325514@windsurf.lan> <87bmgbsv4z.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20180226154724.4e87f072@windsurf.lan> Message-ID: <877eqzshgt.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Hello, > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:06:20 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> > mplayer upstream is dead ? If that is the case, then indeed we should >> > just take those patches as-is. >> >> I haven't followed development in details, but the latest mplayer >> release is more than 2 years old and several forks exists (E.G. mpv). > But isn't mplayer one of those projects that says that releases are > useless, and people should always use the latest trunk/master/tip > because it's obviously "the best". Maybe. I do see some recent changes in subversion, but mainly small things (tweaks to the handwritten configure script). >> >> Or deprecate qt4? >> >> > Just because it's broken on powerpc? >> >> Well, mainly because it is no longer maintained upstream. Even Debian is >> removing Qt4: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal > True, but we are not going to remove it for 2018.02, right ? It is indeed getting quite late for 2018.02, but given that: - It isn't supported upstream - The package is orphaned in Buildroot - Other distributions (like Debian) no longer supports it Makes me think that we won't be able to do a good job supporting it throughout the 2018.02 support cycle. We don't have a good way of handling deprecations, so I'm not sure what the best option is: - Do nothing - Change prompt to "Qt (obsolete)" - Remove package -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard