Merge of libdvdread from Debian unstable

[Onkar Shinde]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:09:44 +0530 Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Just wanted to give a notification. I am working on merge of
>>libdvdread from Debian unstable. There are bunch of
>>reverse-build-depends which will need to be rebuild. I could use one
>>or more helping hands.
>>
>>The bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdread/+bug/330684
>>Please read the two points I have written in the description. The
>>rebuilds will have to be processed carefully.
>>
>
> Is there a compelling piece of functionality provided by this that it's worth starting right
> before Feature Freeze?

1. The current version we have (0.9.7) is two years old. The upstream
development has been taken over by mplayer team recently and 4.1.3 is
first released by the team.
2. I was hoping that the merge will be done by those who handle the
gstreamer packages. It was only two days ago that I asked Sebastian
Dröge (slomo). I admit that I should have asked him earlier.
3. I have done some minimal testing with local builds and gstreamer
rebuilds. I didn't find any regression with regards to playing DVD in
totem.
4. The delay was not intentional. I have been busy working on some
other packages.


Onkar