[aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream

[Doug Newgard]

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> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:16:16 -0500
> From: palopezv at gmail.com
> To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jonas Heinrich
> <onny at project-insanity.org>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> please remove AUR package "torrentstream" [1] since it's deprecated and
>> replaced by the program acestream [2].
>> Thank you,
>> Jonas
>>
>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torrentstream/
>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=acestream
>>
>
>
> I notice that acestream-player-data[1] depends on an orphan package called
> acestream-ffmpeg[2] a repackage of ffmpeg 0.10.7 and thus a duplicate of
> ffmpeg-compat in community (this one is a bit old, but 0.10.7 is queued in
> community-testing). Shouldn't it be better to depend on the package in
> community and drop [2] from the AUR?
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acestream-player-data/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acestream-ffmpeg/
>
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If you can make it work, go for it; I didn't put too much time into getting it to work with ffmpeg-compat. Don't just assume the package from [community] works, though.