[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 575261] Do not use the outdated Debian/Ubuntu libass libraries!

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------- Comment #8 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2009-03-13 17:28 UTC -------
> I take offense at the term random.

I have no idea what you find offensive about that ...


> Evgeniy and Greg are the only two active libass maintainers. PERIOD.

I don't think I ever doubted or questioned anything you said? (re. "PERIOD."?)


> VLC and MPlayer both currently rely wholly on libass upstream. Furthermore,
> libass development is currently decentralized.

Decentralized and coordinated I presume? (Asking only in order to understand
the maintenance situation better.)


> On top of that, the official release tree is deprecated and no longer
> maintained:
> http://libass.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libass/

Ok. So what are the plans of the current maintainers then? Are they going to
make releases and put them up somewhere? I don't think it really matters (to
us) who the active maintainers are or where they put up the releases, just that
the maintenance situation is actively communicated and distros know which
tarball to grab and package. And we can depend on something that is versioned
and released.


> The changes to libass since the last official release are astronomical. I could
> provide a list of changes if you want.

That's great to hear. A list or screenshots aren't necessary, we'll take your
word for it :)


So in short it all comes down to:

 - what's the download location of release tarballs for the latest
   (or future) versions of libass*? I.e. the stuff that you want
   distros to package?

 - if there are no released tarballs yet, please encourage upstream
   to provide some (well, one will do I guess) and ideally also
   announce that on some mailing list and/or website.


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