[vlc-devel] Gentoo irresponsible packaging

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>         Hello,
>
> It has come to my (and others) attention that Gentoo unilaterally merged a
> patch to their VLC port against our advice. I warned very unambiguously that
> this patch was broken on Trac. And now it broke VLC on Gentoo exactly as per
> the warnings.
>
> And then Gentoo users blame VideoLAN. This is totally irresponsible and
> unacceptable behaviour for a packager. This is not how you should cooperate
> with your upstream. Compare Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> As a consequence and until further notice:
>
> 1/ I reserve the right to proactively advise against Gentoo anytime I see fit,
> and encourage any other VLC dev do likewise.
>
> 2/ Any bug report on any medium that involves Gentoo may be summarily closed
> as invalid or notvlc.
>
> 3/ (As the defacto upstream Linux port maintainer) I hereby decalre that
> running VLC on Gentoo is officially unsupported.
>
>
> And I daresay that whoever did this makes a good case against distribution
> packaging and in favor of first-party software bundles. Sawing the branch that
> you sit on (French proverb).

Hi Remi,

Could you please provide a link to the patch and/or Trac reference so
others can get some additional context on the actual issue?

Thanks,

Devin

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