[packman] Status of HandBrake in PMBS

[Manfred Hollstein]

Hi Stefan,

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 18:30:36 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I can add myself as a maintainer as I'm already a Multimedia maintainer
;-)

> > 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.

Thanks a lot!

> 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.

I just checked and, no, it's definitely not necessary! I inherited that
file from HP's SR, so, it's not required and I'll remove it now.

> Happy packaging!
> 
> 	seife

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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