remove xbmc from Debian testing/unstable?

Bálint Réczey balint at balintreczey.hu
Fri Nov 18 19:45:06 UTC 2016


2016-10-26 13:12 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:
> Hi James,
>
> 2016-10-26 12:48 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>> On 26/10/16 11:00, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> 2016-09-21 4:28 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>:
>>>> On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 18:14 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have changed kodi 17.x to provide xbmc*.
>>>>> The next upload to experimental will contain the fix.
>>>>
>>>> Excellent, thanks for that!
>>>
>>> It seems it is too much hassle to maintain the xbmc packages
>>> generated from kodi source, see #842141.
>>>
>>> I could append the current version to the xbmc package versions,
>>> but that would just confuse users.
>>
>> This is normal for transitional packages.
>>
>>> If you have any good idea please share it, otherwise I'm revert to
>>> provide the transitional packages from xbmc.
>>
>> This is what I'm about to upload to do the mplayer2 -> mpv transition:
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/mpv.git/commit/?id=1ef5c58015019a414bd89c98b1de215c3fcbcca5
>>
>> That allows me to not epoch the whole of mpv.
>
> Thanks, let's try this then.

For the record somehow the 2: epoch sneaked in for kodi and I had to
adopt it everywhere in the package. :-\

Cheers,
Balint



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