Bug 647990

Summary:	>=media-video/mpv-0.28.0 wrongly masked
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	manday
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cedric Sodhi 2018-02-18 09:00:16 UTC

mpv is in package.mask, stating "mpv >= 0.28.0 requires changes currently only available in ffmpeg-9999.". For all I know "requiring another package" (a.k.a. "depending on"), irrespective of the latter's version, is not a genuine reason to be masked by package.mask. If it depends on =ffmpeg-9999, then let it depend. If the user satisfies ffmpeg-9999, then there is no reason to block it (c.f. in package.mask due to security issues).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-18 09:54:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647902 ***