FS#53924 - [libva] libva-utils like vainfo missing not present in official repos

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lone_Wolf (Lone_Wolf) - Thursday, 04 May 2017, 12:01 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 04 May 2017, 14:23 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

In libva 1.8.0 upstream has split of tools like vainfo into a separate package called libva-utils .

Arch Linux devs did not add a package for libva-utils to official repos or communicated a reason for the missing functionality in libva.

Several bug reports were created , but all have been closed very fast.
Whether libva maintainer and other AL devs are even aware of this issue remains a mystery.

For those that urgently need libva tools seanvk has uploaded a libva-utils package to AUR,
see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libva-utils/ .

This issue has been present for approx a month now and needs to be solved.

In my opinion there are 2 ways to handle this :

1. Add libva-utils to official repos and mention it in libva as a new optional dependency

2. decide libva-utils don't belong in offical repos anymore and alert users of libva of the vanished functionality ASAP.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Thursday, 04 May 2017, 14:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 04 May 2017, 14:22 GMT
You obviously know this is a duplicate. Don't do this again.

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