Re: Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie

[Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Dear Security and Release Teams,

On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:23:07 +0200 Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On 05.10.2014 22:54, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Andreas Cadhalpun (andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com) [141005 22:36]:
> >> That's because the last message from a release team member in this bug
> >> said [1]:
> >> 'However (and please note that I'm not a member of the security team
> >> and just speak for myself here as always when not otherwise marked) if
> >
> > As I said, I was just speaking for myself. That I might be at other
> > times speaking as a member of the release team doesn't make it an
> > opinion of the release team. For the release team opinion on this
> > topic seen Cyrils mails.
> >
> > Also, the re-evaluation happened. It however didn't had the outcome
> > you wanted (basically because the web browser needs so many security
> > updates which only could be done by backporting all of it that the
> > embedded copy doesn't make any difference - this is an exceptional
> > thing which does happen but not very often. I can understand it, and
> > of course it's the call of the security team how to ensure that Debian
> > has security updates. I hadn't know that at the time I though about
> > the possibility, otherwise I would have already achived at that moment
> > at the conclusion).
> >
> >
> > Conclusion: Though I'm usually an optimistic person how to get things
> > achived, I don't see any way left how at this late time it's possible
> > to ship with ffmpeg in jessie. I'm sorry but we have to face the
> > facts. Independend if we like them or not (and I can fully understand
> > that you don't like them, but it's no good pretending facts are
> > different than they are). Sorry.
> 
> Thanks for explaining.
> 
> It's sad that it isn't possible to have FFmpeg in jessie, but hopefully 
> it'll be in jessie+1.
Could you please confirm that bug will be closed and FFmpeg will be let
migrating to testing after Jessie's release no matter if Libav is still
present there?
The current packaging of FFmpeg lets it to co-exist with Libav and the
next release cycle could be used to test it more extensively.

Cheers,
Balint