[FFmpeg-devel] libav commit f8c34f4b8d62afad3f63cf3d9617d73735bef8c1 (again)

[Mats Peterson]

On 03/16/2016 09:07 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Mats Peterson
> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>> On 03/16/2016 09:04 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Mats Peterson
>>> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 03/16/2016 08:55 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Mats Peterson
>>>>> <matsp888-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/16/2016 04:48 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03/16/2016 04:45 AM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You say the libav commits are merged every day. This commit was
>>>>>>>> posted
>>>>>>>> February 22, that's quite a while ago. What is it that causes this
>>>>>>>> delay?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mats
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is a super-simple patch, at that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mats
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once again, couldn't I just make a new patch with the relevant changes
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> libavcodec/indeo2.c and libavcodec/indeo2data.h, and attribute Luca
>>>>>> Barbato
>>>>>> in some way?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Either you cherry-pick it properly, or you don't do it at all. So
>>>>> apparently, no, you cannot.
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>>>>
>>>> We'll see what Michael says about that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He already said this in an earlier mail, and you ignored him all the
>>> same. You should try to listen to people and not just do wtf you want.
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>>
>> I don't know how the fsck to use that cherry-pick crap.
>>
>
> Then  figure it out, or wait until someone merges it. Manually messing
> with these things just makes more work for everyone else, which is why
> we don't accept it. Its as simple as that.
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Then why hasn't it been merged yet? You said yourself libav commits are 
merged "every day", unless there is some obstacle. What could this 
obstacle be this time? The commit was posted February 22. It's a fairly 
long time.

Mats