Rex Dieter wrote:
The labor of love that was maintaining xine-lib has passed, as it
will no
longer be a dependency in f16's kde stack in any form. As such, I'm
orphaning it. Kevin Kofler has offered to take ownership, though I'd
venture he'd welcome any comaintainer assistance offered.
FWIW, there's one third-party KDE-Platform-based application still using
xine-lib for the foreseeable future: Kaffeine. That package was also
orphaned, I picked it up too.
In a similar vein, phonon-backend-xine has officially been deprecated
and
is no longer supported. We'll be EOL'ing this one soon.
It's indeed time for that one to just go away, phonon-backend-gstreamer is
now the better solution. I'm not going to attempt resurrecting phonon-
backend-xine unless upstream suddenly changes their mind about the
recommended Phonon backend again and brings it back from the ashes (but
xine-lib itself would need a sudden reinjection of life as well).
We've been doing the switch step by step:
* Fedora 9, 10 and 11 installed only phonon-backend-xine by default.
* Fedora 12, 13 and 14 installed both phonon-backend-xine and phonon-
backend-gstreamer by default and defaulted to phonon-backend-xine.
* Fedora 15 only installs phonon-backend-gstreamer by default. phonon-
backend-xine is still in the repository, but will not be used by default
even when installed.
* Fedora 16 will only support phonon-backend-gstreamer.
Kevin Kofler