[Python-modules-team] Bug#741935: Is the avbin package still being maintained?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Peirce
<jonathan.peirce at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> avbin was takedn over by a new developer and hosted here:
>     http://avbin.github.io/AVbin/Home/Home.html
>
> Unfortunately, I've never got those updated versions working on mac or
> windows (or maybe they just aren't compatible with pyglet? Not sure). Here
> is the last discussion I had with the new developer about it:
>     https://github.com/AVbin/AVbin/issues/41#issuecomment-10700404
>
> But maybe on linux they're fine?


I took a brief look at it. It seems that the new upstream doesn't
believe in a system provided libav, and changed the "build system" to
rely on the git submodule linked private copy of libav:

https://github.com/astraw/avbin-debian/blob/master/README
https://github.com/astraw/avbin-debian/blob/master/build.sh

This is hardly acceptable for usage in a distribution such as Debian.

In any case, I'll upload a new package of avbin that marks it as
orphaned properly shortly. Maybe one of the four pyglet maintainers
are interested in adopting it? If not, I'd still rather see it
removed, at least from testing for now.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard