On 02/02/2011 01:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > As the Fedora 14 update of Audacious from 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 has not been > smooth at all and is still annoying users, who need 3rd party plugin > packages which still haven't been pushed, the following consequences are > arising IMO: > > > Fedora 13 > > I'm offering Audacious 2.2 (audacious-2.2-16 and audacious-plugins-2.2-38) > in Fedora 13 to anyone interested in taking over. In other words, consider > Audacious in Fedora 13 semi-orphaned. > > In my point of view, it works well enough that it doesn't need an upgrade > to 2.4.x. Though, a lot has changed in the 2.4 series, and certainly there > are additional bug-fixes included. If to be upgraded in Fedora 13, this > would need the cooperation (and extra-work) of 3rd party plugin package > providers. Special precautions are to be taken as not to repeat the > problems we've run into with this recent update in Fedora 14. Whether > Fedora 13 is "new enough" with regard to all dependencies remains to be > examined by whomever. I believe that users with interest in later software > ought to upgrade to Fedora 14. > > > Fedora 14 > > Even before a strong RPM dependency in 3rd party plugin packages is > available to prevent breaking of decoder plugins, I have created a custom > repository for Audacious 2.5-alpha1 - which btw breaks the Plugin API > again and requires actual code changes and not just rebuilds: > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/mschwendt/audacious-2.5/fedora-audacious-2.5.repo > > This is not only for users to take a sneak peek at Audacious 2.5 development, > but also to emphasize that the dependency on 3rd party plugin packages can > be problematic. Audacious refuses to load or play MP3s for me since a recent update (Fedora 14 x86_64). I'm guessing this is the kind of problem you are talking about? If so, I'll give this a shot and report my success or lack thereof. -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer@xxxxxxxxxxx AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
