vlc and mplayer gtk2 version

[Matthew Nicholson]

what do you mean over complicated? from my experience, its pretty
simple.

a package won't be backported if:
its a lib (things would break)
its a major package (aka, gnome 2.14 because it would be a TON of work)
it won't build cleanly.
its dependencies have issues (can't/won't backport, etc)

and from the looks of it, these two packages fit right in there. mplayer
won't build cleanly. and vlc has dependencies that won't backport, or
are against the rules to backport.

did i miss what you meant by "over-complicated" ? 


on a semi-related note:

I was wondering what, if any interest might exist in creating some sort
of backports web-based sandbox/try out area. i just thought is up and it
might go something like this:

user( via html form) asks for a package to be backported.
package name would be checked against a blacklist of some sort of known
"un-backport-able" packages.
if its in this list, the user gets a "sorry..."
if not, a build is attempted. 
if it fails, the users gets a "sorry" message and the (needed) output to
diagnose the problem, with links to the forum and/or mailing list to get
more help/explanation. 
if it builds clean, the user is notified that all is well.
I figure here, maybe the package would be put in a temp. repo of some
sort, where the user can manually download it (only the package they
requested)if they wish (with warnings etc). a notice would automatically
be sent to the list, saying the build went fine, along with a log of it
all, for final approval, before its gets moved to the "real" backports
repo. 

any comments/ideas? its something i might start hacking on soon, since
backporting most applications is as simple as passing a package name to
the script. plus then there would be one central place to
request/attempt builds, and users could get "custom backports", things
that build clean but won't be officially backported due to
rules/possible instabilities etc (with loads of warning of course).

just an idea i had brewing. 
 
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 00:31 +0000, leon wrote:
> Feel that current backport policy is over-complicated.
> 
> John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
>  | This information is correct.
>  | 
>  | On 12/22/05, Travis Watkins <alleykat at gmail.com> wrote:
>  | >
>  | > On 12/22/05, leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>  | > > Hi all,
>  | > >
>  | > > Any plan to backport this two critical apps with gtk2?
>  | > >
>  | >
>  | > IIRC the VLC in dapper no long backports, plus to get gtk2 widgets
>  | > you'd need wxwidgets 2.6 (won't be backported). Not sure about mplayer
>  | > though.
>  | >
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