Friday, June 02, 2023

Re: Removing transcode

On Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 07:25:14PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> I'd like to remove the multimedia/transcode port.
>
> It has been long unmaintained upstream and does not build with newer FFmpeg.
> Although patches have been cobbled together over the years to keep it
> building
> with newer versions of FFmpeg, to date it has always been somewhat fragile.
>
> Also removing graphics/dvdrip and multimedia/subtitleripper which are
> dependent
> on transcode and are equally as old and unmaintained.
>

Looks dead in the open source distribution landscape:
https://repology.org/project/transcode/versions
https://repology.org/project/dvdrip/versions
https://repology.org/project/subtitleripper/versions

OK to remove all of them. IMO: We should not maintain upstream dead
ports even if there is no alternative for this

Rafael

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