[Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #4 (deadline January 5)

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Bogdan,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bogdan,
>
> Sorry for the late reply...
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bogdan Radulescu <bogdan at nimblex.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Regarding the http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/207431 patch.
>> GStreamer switched from ffmpeg to libav a while ago and newer versions don't
>> have the ffmpeg package.
>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-libav/0.11.90.html
>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-1.x-README.txt
>>
>> gst-ffmpeg was last updated almost two years ago.
>>
>> Even though irrelevant, the situation of ffmpeg and libav is explained here:
>> http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html
>>
>> The patch was used in production so it's tested.
>>
>> I think it would be a step back if this patch is discarded.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback. The info you gave is very interesting.
> In fact, it's the type of information that would be suitable for the
> commit message, as it gives the rationale for the switch.
>
> Based on your feedback, I agree we shouldn't throw away this patch.
> Would it be possible for you to rebase the patch based on latest
> buildroot and resubmit? In the mean time some of the code changed, for
> example the multimedia directory is removed now. If you have time, I
> think this would be the fastest and best solution, as you are the
> original author.
>
> Awaiting your feedback, I'll already mark it as 'Delegated to me', so
> that the patch is not forgotten.

Please have a look at this thread:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-January/087200.html
It seems that there is a patch addressing the same issue but in a
different way is already included in buildroot.
It would be great if you and Bernd could check what is still needed
from your patch.

Thanks,
Thomas