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

[Bálint Réczey]

2014-02-22 18:26 GMT+01:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 20:49 -0500 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>> > I have concerns regarding the switch.
>>> > XBMC ships its own (fork of) libdvdnav, too, but I think I have
>>> > recently convinced
>>> > them to try to upstream some of their contributions to libdvdnav [1]
>>> > and I fail to
>>> > immediately see why VLC couldn't do so.
>>>
>>> Well, the message I've quoted above explains this pretty well, I think.
>>>
>>> Did xbmc try to send the patches to j-b? Do you have a reference for
>>> the upstream submissions?
>>>
>>> Note that this upload would fix a RC bug that we have right now, and I
>>> currently see less problems in getting the xbmc patches into the
>>> videolan branch.
>>
>> http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/ states that their code was imported to the
>> videolan git repositories. So the videolan developer didn't fork the
>> library, but took over the development. So we can just ship the coming
>> releases from videolan (which will be 5.0.0).
I think Reinhard wanted to say yes here. :-)

>>
>> Can we get the XBMC developers to integrate their changes into the
>> library on videolan?
>
> I would say they have to sooner or later.
Sure, I have been waiting waiting for the announcement [2]. XBMC devs are
already working on simplifying and upstreaming the patches they carry [3].

Cheers,
Balint

[2] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2014-February/002115.html
[3] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/4107