Re: pkg/49689: multimedia/gmplayer distfiles out of date

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49689; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49689: multimedia/gmplayer distfiles out of date
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:35:20 -0500 (CDT)

 On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Martin Husemann wrote:
 
 >  I filed an upstream request for this:
 >  
 >  	https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2235#ticket
 
 I was about to ask about more recent releases.  So it appears we're
 using the latest there is right now--just that the extras have been
 updated out from under it.
 
 So what to do until then (as I doubt it'll be done before 2015QQ1 is
 tagged)?
 
 > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:29:51 +0100
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > 
 > We can mirror ourselves the patched versions, or make the pkg patch
 > them after download. They look mostly reasonable, may be missing
 > minor details...
 
 You're referring to patched versions of the skins (or arranging patch-phase
 patches to elide the offending extensions in the skin config files), right?
 
 Your statement implies that doing so will allow them to load, even if
 they don't function quite as intended?  (I'm still updating packages and
 the build host hasn't gotten around to "gmplayer" yet.)
 
 > Or: we extract the patches from upstream subversion that added the new
 > keywords and patch that into the old release?
 
 Much as I like this idea, it puts much of the testing and verification
 on us.  Perhaps patch the skins for 2015Q1 and look at patching the
 executable afterwards (pending an official release from upstream)?
 
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