FS#53924 - [libva] libva-utils like vainfo missing not present in official repos
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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
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
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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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Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) -
Thursday, 04 May 2017, 14:22 GMT
You obviously know this is a duplicate. Don't do this again.