Bug 96341 – Version bump (0.8.9) and keyword addition (~x86) requests for media-plugins/gst-plugins-swfdec

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Peter Gordon (RETIRED) 2005-06-16 23:15:45 UTC]

Please bump media-plugins/gst-plugins-swfdec to version 0.8.9. (It works for me
using media-libs/swfdec version 0.3.5).

Also, I've added "~x86" to the ebuild and installed it from my overlay and it
seems to work just fine (through Totem 1.0.2-r1 using the GStreamer backend).
Please also add "~x86" to the ebuild that's currently in the portage tree.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
2. Copy gst-plugins-swfdec-0.8.2.ebuild from the official tree to my local
portage overlay as gst-plugins-swfdec-0.8.9.ebuild
3. Add "~x86" to its KEYWORDS.
4. emerge media-plugins/gst-plugins-swfdec




[ peter@deep-thought :: pts/5 ] /home/peter $ emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aalib acpi alsa apache2 artworkextra bash-completion
berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl eds encode erandom fbcon
ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fpx gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glitz gnome gnutls gpm
graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl imap imlib ipv6 javascript jbig
jpeg justify lcms libcaca logrotate lzo mad mbox mcal md5sum mmap mmx mmxext mng
mozdevelop mozilla moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpm-worker mysql ncurses
nethack network nls nodrm nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openntpd pam
pam_console parse-clocks pcmcia pcre perl pic png ppds python readline rhythmbox
rtc sdk sdl silc skey slang slp speex spell ssl svg symlink tcpd theora threads
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wmf x86 xforms xine xml
xml2 xprint xv xvid xvmc zero-penalty-hit zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-06-23 04:14:15 UTC]

i'm not happy with swfdec's quality yet to support it as a gst plugin

[Comment 2 Peter Gordon (RETIRED) 2005-06-23 19:58:18 UTC]

What do you mean exactly? It has yet to crash Epiphany and seems to work well
enough with some sites (Homestar Runner, for example). For things it doesn't
support, it merely display a blank white image, but can usually still play the
audio. Now, granted, it can't play all flash files very well but, like gplflash
(which was very unstable for me), it's based on trying to reverse-engineer the
flash format, which is proprietary (similar to the fact that many F/OSS word
processors can open MS Word documents, albeit not very well usually). This is
much more stable for me than gplflash (which *is* supported and in Portage). Not
to be rude, but if the devs didn't like its quality enough to support it, could
they simply put it in the tree and package.mask (as it is now) it so that those
like me who want to use it can use it without worrying about installing it
through an overlay or similar?

[Comment 3 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-06-24 02:00:11 UTC]

The overlay ability is there for exactly the reason you have said.  Adding
gst-plugin-blah ebuilds is very very easy to do.  This is encouraged for plugins
that are not first class plugins (like vorbis, ogg, etc.)

swfdec is not there yet (i hear its much improved in cvs so will try once david
releases a new version) and maybe if it works better i will add it to portage.

Yes, I do want a swfdec plugin in portage.  That is why I took over swfdec
itself's maintainership.  But until it works much better than now, I am not
going to add it.

[Comment 4 Peter Gordon (RETIRED) 2005-06-24 23:53:07 UTC]

Ah. I think I understand. Thanks for the explanation. :-)

Should I mark this as RESOLVED/LATER then?

[Comment 5 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-07-13 05:04:37 UTC]

yah it should be marked resolved later