Bug 1404202

Summary:	libbluray in EL7 is severely outdated
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Xavier Bachelot <xavier>
Component:	libbluray	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	tpelka
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Description Xavier Bachelot 2016-12-13 10:23:53 UTC

Description of problem:
Fedora's libbluray maintainer speaking...
libbluray as available in EL7 is severely outdated and the spec is out of sync with what's in Fedora because the package was modified/truncated before being included, w/o any contact with me or the co-maintainers. Sharing the work would definitely be a plus for everyone, indeed.

I'd very much like to see libbluray be updated to something recent, in order for it to be (more) useful. The package as found in currently maintained Fedora releases is up to date and has working BD-J support. It should be compliant wrt to ABI.
https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/libbluray/

Also the EL7 package is affected by several bugs that are not present in Fedora. I'll add references to relevant bugs to this one.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libbluray-0.2.3-5.el7

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2020-02-12 14:29:52 UTC

Unfortunately, I can't actually remove libbluray from the distribution. If everything goes
according to plan, the library won't be shipped in subsequent versions of RHEL.

I've commented on a possible way forward at:
https://pagure.io/epel/issue/61#comment-625785