xzgv in Fedora broken? (was: Re: sound problems)

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:51:07 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>
> > Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >
> > > Rahul,
> > >
> > > if my memory is not failing, some packages appeared first in ATrpms
> > > than if Fedora (livna/rpmfusion): xvidcap, xzgv, xv, etc. I am not
> > > discussing
> > > if these packages are useful or not. The fedora version of xzgv was
> > > never able
> > > to display the thumbnails correctly, for instance. Why? Because it has
> > > to be compiled with
> > > gcc3.
> >
> > Was there a bug report filed on this? Again, when problems are in a
> > repository, working together to fix the problem is more of a benefit,
> > compared to have alternative fixed versions in a place, where majority
> > of end users won't benefit from it. If maintainers don't have time,
> > step-in and become co-maintainers and fix the problems instead.
>
> Exactly. Although above bug sounds as if the packager should have noticed
> it during one of the Fedora development cycles, it can be most
> disappointing for Fedora packagers to learn after a long time, that there
> are problems which have not been reported to Fedora and neither to
> upstream. I'm aware of several cases like that. Sometimes you meet users,
> who claim that simply rebuilding a Fedora package would fix something.
> They point their fingers at Fedora and blame Fedora for "lame bugs", but
> when finally a problem is examined, it turns out they have been mistaken
> as the problem is completely elsewhere. Trying to work around problems
> with private builds or upgrades in unofficial repos may be a temporary
> solution, but it doesn't help to improve Fedora [or the packaged
> software].
>

I really tried sometimes, with other packages (memtest86+, in this case):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237279

Never received an answer in one year and half. I also gave a solution, that
worked for me
with several different computers (Intel and AMD).
The bug was closed, and re-opened now, by another person:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472981

By the way, the same problem persists in F10. But really, this bug affects
much more people than xzgv, and old image viewer, I thought only me was
using.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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