[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 575261] Do not use the outdated Debian/Ubuntu libass libraries!

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------- Comment #10 from Eric Appleman  2009-03-13 17:47 UTC -------
>Decentralized and coordinated I presume? (Asking only in order to understand
>the maintenance situation better.)
Yes, there is coordination, but no central development tree.

>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.

I don't know. The ffmpeg devs had to swallow their pride in order to release
version 0.5 this week. Maybe something similar can be arranged for libass.

By the way, the current code path for libass is as follows:

Greg's SVN -> MPlayer SVN -> Aegisub SVN -> VLC git

At the moment, the download location for the library itself would be the vlc
git. However there's a catch. There was gigantic change in rendering behavior
between the 2/24 code merge and this week. A lot of fixes landed after it and
are only found on the Greg's, MPlayer's, and Aegisub's SVNs at the moment.

If you wish to learn more or track these changes, may I recommend the
mplayer-dev mailing list and its archives for February and March?

>You seem to know your way around the libass situation better than us - maybe
>you could try to talk to the right people?

Yup. I'm following the development very closely and testing vigorously. Also,
as a liaison, I'm trying to the bridge the coordination gap between the coders
and packagers.


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