On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29:45PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:29:17AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:10:21AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > > And that was the case since 16 Dec 2006? > > yes. Read ahead. > > > Why was this not brought up > > sooner, and why has there been zero effort made into resolving this > > issue, as far as we can see? > > You don't see all that has happened. > Yes, I don't. You didn't update the bug, or tell us what was going on. We can't read minds. > You do not see the many emails I sent to ffmpeg-free mantainers, > almost all of them went unanswered (but for one). I can provide you a > complete list, if you wish. > The only one I see is http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2007-September/000408.html, and that's for a different issue. I also find it fairly rich that you complain at a lack of answers, and yet don't reply to pings to a BR asking for an update. > The other thing you fail to see is that the "ffmpeg transition" was > announced on d-devel-announce on 1st July 2007 (yes, that is not a > typo!) and is still going on, according to > http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/ffmpeg-free.html > You seem to be confused, these aren't the same transition. The one mentioned in 2007 transitioned on 2007-07-05, five days after the mail. Perhaps the fact that the source package name has changed in the last year is causing an issue for you? > You do not see the weekends I spent in the last 3 months trying to > link mplayer to ffmpeg-free in Debian. > This is good, but should have happened sooner. This bug has been open since Sarge was stable. > Yet another thing you fail to see is that I care for my packages a > lot: mplayer is 1191 in the popcon list, and yet I manage to keep its > bug count at a reasonable ~40; I regularly upload new versions, and > fix as many bugs as I can each time. > But not enough to fix a RC bug that's been open since 2006. > If I had known in advance that all my time was lost for nothing, > I would have gone collecting daises in sunlight instead. > It doesn't have to be for nothing; Get the issue resolved, and mplayer can move back into testing. Neil -- <jmtd> irssiproxy appears to be crack cut with washing up powder
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