[packman] Status of HandBrake in PMBS

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 15:20:09 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> we currently have version 1.5.1 of HandBrake in our Multimedia project.
> Looking at the upstream website <https://handbrake.fr/> shows, we're
> pretty far behind.
> 
> Hans-Peter Jansen, being one of three maintainers of this package, sent a
> request to bring the package to version 1.6.0 over one year ago; that
> request raised some comments/questions to which he never responded.
> 
> I as a user of that package thought to look into how difficult it would
> be to upgrade to the latest upstream version 1.9.0, and found out it
> isn't actually very difficult. That's why I approached the three
> maintainers
> 
>   Hans-Peter Jansen
>   David Haller
>   Pascal Leser
> 
> 10 days ago via direct e-mail to review my request and comment on it.
> All three people are long time maintainers and users both in SUSE Linux
> and here at Packman.

I completely forgot to thank them for all their work, which I really
like to do now!

>                       I did not receive any response, hence I thought to
> ask for feedback here. If you are interested in a new version of
> HandBrake, please give the packages at
> 
>   <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/package/show/home:manfred-h/handbrake>
> 
> a chance and download and test them on your system. If project
> maintainers for the Multimedia project read this and would like to
> review the SR, please do so:
> 
>   <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/6239>
> 
> If the package maintainers are still active, please do so, too!
> 
> TIA, cheers.
> 
> l8er
> manfred
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