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Re: bug 402772: downgrade mplayer bug 395252 (for including mplayer in etch)



Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         At this point, my inclination would be to defer to the
>  judgement of the release team as to whether or not this bug is deemed
>  RC


Just for the record: the release team had already expressed his view
 (in a sense): in Oct, there was already a (informal) discussion in
#d-release, and the opinion was that this bug 295252 was not RC at all.

More in detail: in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395252;msg=10
Joey Hess wrote:
> severity 395252 important
> thanks
> 
> The testing security team tracks probably hundreds of possibly security
> relevant code copies in data/embedded-code-copies in their svn repo. As
> long as the security teams know about code copies, they can deal with
> updates due to them. Getting rid of embedded code copies is a good thing
> to do, but it's not an RC bug.
> 
> This may change to RC post-etch.

then Moritz raised the severity again:
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> severity 395252 serious
> thanks
> No, we have already way too much work and artifially
> introducing more is
> not a option. For Sarge there was no clean solution,
> as ffmpeg provided
> only a static libavcodec, but since this exists,
> there's no reason not to use it. (*)

so Joey Hess replied:
> How is mplayer different than the 200 or so other items listed in
> embedded-code-copies? Other than only getting through incoming now. 
> I discussed this on #debian-release and people seemed to think it wasn't
> and this shouldn't be RC.



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