[packman] Status of HandBrake in PMBS

[Stefan Seyfried]

Hi Manfred

Am 12.02.25 um 15:20 schrieb Manfred Hollstein:
> 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

I last read from Hans-Peter in early 2023, he also no longer seems to be 
active in the build.o.o vdr project.

>    David Haller

The last time I read anything from David was in 2021.

>    Pascal Leser

The last time i read from Pascal was in 2017

So don't expect them to be still active but just take over the package ;-)

> 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 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!

For whatever reason I already forgot, I am a maintainer of Multimedia, 
so I accepted the package.

One thing to consider are the _constraints: are the 6GB RAM really 
necessary or just "nice to have"? requiring more than 4G (probably more 
than 3.5G actually) leaves only one ARM worker being able to build it, 
so if it is possible to tone that down, that would be useful.

Happy packaging!

	seife

-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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