[DVDnav-discuss] [SCM] libdvdnav/master: Merge tag 'upstream/4.9.0__gita5c13254'

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Dear Bálint,

The new repository is a fork, and while I invited all the original 
developers to use a proper versionning system and join me, none of them 
seemed interested in that part. Adding developer keys to this repository 
is quite simple, and we do that all the time.

The time taken to move to git, and to rewrite the history to have proper 
authoring was a long investment, so, there is no way I throw that away, 
notably because the original way goes against everything we believe in.

Moreover, libdvdnav is the most crashing library ever, and is full of 
security issues. In VLC for Windows, it crashes twice more than 
libavcodec, which is ridiculous, since libdvdnav is probably used in 10% 
of the VLC cases.

Finally, the development is too slow on libdvdnav.

Because of the above reasons, VLC will mandate the new library. I'm 
sorry, there is no other way I can make it.

The API should stay compatible as much as possible, since most of the 
fixes should happen under the hood.

With my best regards,

Le 02/13/14 17:18, Bálint Réczey a écrit :
> Dear Jean-Baptiste and DVDnav developers,
>
> We applaud your efforts in contributing to libdvdnav. Having
> libdvdnav's code in git
> and having a new very active developer is a big help to the project.
>
> We at Debian would happily use the libdvdnav code from git as the base of our
> packages, but from the linked thread [1] it seems there is no established
> consensus regarding the state of the VideoLAN-hosted repository.
>
> I would like to ask all of you (developers contributing either to the
> original svn and
> the new git repositories) to decide if the repository at
> git.videolan.org/libdvdnav.git
> is a continuation of libdvdnav's development or not.
>
> This is needed to prevent the fragmentation of development which would
> unnecessarily complicate life for projects using libdvdnav.
>
> I'm somewhat biased towards migrating libdvdnav to git in this step
> and continuing
> development in VLC's repo since it is ready and moving to git is probably
> unavoidable.
>
> Either way I would be glad to see a public announcement on dvdnav-discuss
> clarifying the situation.
>
> Thanks,
> Balint
>
> [1] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2013-November/002001.html
>
> PS: Please CC-m, I'm not on dvdnav-discuss
>
> 2014-02-12 14:47 GMT+01:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
>> FYI:
>>
>> I intend to switch our system libdvdnav library to the version
>> provided on videolan. Some discussion on this fork can be seen on the
>> dvdnav mailing list:
>>
>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2013-November/002001.html
>>
>> Please tell me if you have concerns, but I think this is the right
>> thing to do for Debian. FWIW, I believe that what we currently have in
>> git/master is good enough for unstable. I'll upload later this week
>> unless someone objects.
>>
>> Best,
>> Reinhard
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM,  <siretart at users.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>>> Imported Upstream version 4.9.0~~gita5c13254
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>> X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master
>>> X-Git-Reftype: branch
>>> X-Git-Oldrev: 7f97a3df880e5119aa503f3463293024189ce86d
>>> X-Git-Newrev: c509b40700bb19d935e1d811e857c6beb23b6ce9
>>>
>>> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>>> commit 7ffeb8e3639ed334b970338c513468ba784578a4
>>> Merge: 7f97a3df880e5119aa503f3463293024189ce86d 63ef6f4abf8068db62bb2ea4c6dbc09e86056dfd
>>> Author: Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
>>> Date:   Tue Feb 11 02:18:52 2014 +0000
>>>
>>>      Merge tag 'upstream/4.9.0__gita5c13254'
>>>
>>>      Upstream version 4.9.0~~gita5c13254
>>>
>>>      Conflicts:
>>>          .gitignore
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> libdvdnav packaging
> ...
>> regards,
>>      Reinhard


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