[DVBCUT-devel] Qt4 port and further directions

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Wolfgang Baron <Wolfgang.Baron at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Reinhard,
>
> I have DVBCut running under Qt4 and Qt5, but like Olaf Dietsche points
> out, Sven Over, who is the only one, who can transfer the Sourceforge
> project to anyone else, does not react at all to any kind of
> communication attempt. I guess I will have to relaunch the whole program
> with a new name.
>
> At the moment, I am slowly making the code more Qt-ish and giving it a
> more usual GUI and the capability to mix several input files.

That's great to hear!

> I spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with the ffmpeg related
> code. The performance is nice, but the API has a playground stability.
> So I will probably copy some arbitrary version into my own project and
> update it from time to time, so that I will only have to keep code for
> one version of the ffmpeg API.

Well, if you believe that helps you making progress on this progress,
that's great. However, having source code copies is not really
acceptable for inclusion into a Linux distribution for obvious
reasons.

> I did not see much point in making fast progress, as most Linux
> distributions still ship Qt4 with the Qt3 compatibility module. Are you
> saying it cannot ship with debian anymore at all? If that is so, I will
> concentrate on producing a release (and hope for some help of a packager
> to make my project packager-friendly).

At the moment, I'm undecided what to with dvbcut. ATM, there are only
three open bugs in the package, and non of them are release-critical,
yet.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dvbcut

>From these three, #739220: FTBFS with libav10, is problematic because
of two reasons: First, it is going to become RC as soon as the
transition starts, but OTOH, the amount of packages that break with
the new libav block starting the transition. I'm currently trying to
remove this number so that we can start the transition rather sooner
than later.

Ideally, I would like to update the package to a new release that
works with qt4/qt5 and a modern libavcodec. If that's not possible
anytime soon, then it may be better to remove dvbcut from debian for
now, and possibly reintroduce it or its successor at a later time.

As said, I'm currently rather undecided how to proceed from here, and
appreciate any input on this.



-- 
regards,
    Reinhard