[SCM] libdvdnav/master: Merge tag 'upstream/4.9.0__gita5c13254'

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 20:49 -0500 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 2014-02-12 14:47 GMT+01:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
>> >> FYI:
>> >>
>> >> I intend to switch our system libdvdnav library to the version
>> >> provided on videolan. Some discussion on this fork can be seen on the
>> >> dvdnav mailing list:
>> >>
>> >> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/dvdnav-discuss/2013-November/002001.html
>> >>
>> >> Please tell me if you have concerns, but I think this is the right
>> >> thing to do for Debian. FWIW, I believe that what we currently have in
>> >> git/master is good enough for unstable. I'll upload later this week
>> >> unless someone objects.
>> > I have concerns regarding the switch.
>> > XBMC ships its own (fork of) libdvdnav, too, but I think I have
>> > recently convinced
>> > them to try to upstream some of their contributions to libdvdnav [1]
>> > and I fail to
>> > immediately see why VLC couldn't do so.
>>
>> Well, the message I've quoted above explains this pretty well, I think.
>>
>> Did xbmc try to send the patches to j-b? Do you have a reference for
>> the upstream submissions?
>>
>> Note that this upload would fix a RC bug that we have right now, and I
>> currently see less problems in getting the xbmc patches into the
>> videolan branch.
>
> http://dvdnav.mplayerhq.hu/ states that their code was imported to the
> videolan git repositories. So the videolan developer didn't fork the
> library, but took over the development. So we can just ship the coming
> releases from videolan (which will be 5.0.0).
>
> Can we get the XBMC developers to integrate their changes into the
> library on videolan?

I would say they have to sooner or later.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard