[FFmpeg-devel] patch for x32 for libpostproc

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 04.09.2014, at 05:33, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 08:22:43PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:06:10PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> as discussed in IRC, I was trying to minimal-invasively port
>>>>> libpostproc (the Debian source package) to x32¹. I could not
>>>>> test it (for lack of a stand-alone test program) yet, but at
>>>>> least I got it to build.
>>>> 
>>>> you could try to test by buiding ffmpeg as a whole but disable asm
>>>> everywhere except libpostproc
>>>> that might allow "easy" testing though fate or ffmpeg with libavfilter
>>> 
>>> Is http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git still maintained?
>> 
>> AFAIK, no, it seems the last commit is 2 years ago
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> The Debian package tracks that repository, and ideally we could
>>> collect the postproc patches there.
>> 
>> libpostproc was and is maintained in
>> git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
> 
> So the promise given in
> https://lists.libav.org/pipermail/libav-devel/2012-February/020712.html
> doesn't hold anymore?
> 
> Any chance to make you reconsider reviving the standalone libpostproc.git?

Seems a bit bit pointless when it has exactly 0 contributors.

>> please use that for the debian package
> 
> I fear that's not feasible at this point.

Brute-force sync with cp then? Or better just merge, it seems to have been created with git filter-branch so that might just work, but I don't know how much effort that would be.
But with no contributors it doesn't seem particularly viable as a stand-alone project.