On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Orcan Ogetbil <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, gatlin sullivan wrote: >> I believe that packaging this and putting into Rpmfusion would be >> a great addition to Fedora. I believe that most Fedora desktop users use >> Rpmfusion, so this as an addition to Rpmfusion will really expand the >> presence of Handbrake for Fedora user's to acquaint themselves. >> > > It was once proposed in RPMFusion. But we gave up. As far as I > remember upstream wasn't very cooperative. (Was it them who were > calling people names?) > > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679
I tried to package it in 2008 and chatted with the developers over IRC; I must admit it was the least pleasant experience I ever had with an upstream, and later I gave up. I remember someone else trying again later (IIRC it was Jared Wilson), then I've probably seen a couple other attempts, including the review request linked above. Just to highlight the kind of climate there (nicks changed): Nov 26 17:09:18 zzz You know, Linux really needs to get rid of these stupid package systems with thier daft limitations Nov 26 17:09:25 aaa yep Nov 26 17:09:28 zzz more troulbe than they are worth Nov 26 17:09:35 aaa they also need to put an end to this distro crap Nov 26 17:10:23 aaa it's absurd that, when running the same OS, a program will compile on one box and not another because some jackass idiot of a distro maintainer didn't symlink the right version of a key library. Nov 26 17:11:18 aaa not to mention the incredible amount of time wasted with this bullshit, guiding a dozen people through a dozen different packagings of the same app Nov 26 17:11:40 aaa Most of which never get posted because of said limitations Anyway, I'd love to have HandBrake in rpmfusion so feel free to check out yourself, after two years maybe something has changed. -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://identi.ca/giallu - http://twitter.com/giallu
