Bug 263526 - graphics/frei0r: Remove gavl plugin
Summary: graphics/frei0r: Remove gavl plugin
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Jason E. Hale
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Reported: 2022-04-24 13:04 UTC by Daniel Engberg
Modified: 2023-03-18 13:44 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-24 13:04:33 UTC 
Trying to do some late spring cleanup in our repo I noticed that this depends on nearly a 10y old unmaintained multimedia library (Gmerlin). Would it be acceptable to remove this plugin or is it a crucial component?

Best regards,
Daniel
Comment 1 Jason E. Hale freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-27 06:52:15 UTC 
frei0r has three filters that require multimedia/gavl. None of the filters are critical to each other. I don't have any data on who uses which filters, though. I have taken maintainership of multimedia/gavl; I don't see any point in getting rid of it just because it is old.

multimedia/gmerlin is a leaf. If you want to put it up for deprecation, that's up to you.
Comment 2 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-27 06:58:49 UTC 
Fine with me, can we in that case try to follow Debian who seems to maintain it somewhat? https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/gavl
Comment 3 Jason E. Hale freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-04-27 07:16:42 UTC 
(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #2)
I will look into it. Thanks!
Comment 4 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-17 06:24:03 UTC 
Hi Jason,

This probably "needs" to go now as libquicktime is abandonware and doesn't compile with FFmpeg 6.0 which gmerlin depends on.

Reference:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261302#c46
Comment 5 Jason E. Hale freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-18 13:37:45 UTC 
(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #4)
Gavl doesn’t depend on libquicktime, so I’m removing the block you added. Like I said in comment #2, do what you want with gmerlin.
Comment 6 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-18 13:44:56 UTC 
Ahh sorry, thanks for the pointer!