Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:38:58PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 10:11 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> schrieb:
> >> How about introducing the ffmpeg shared libraries with libffmpeg
> >> prefix instead of libav prefix?
> > 
> > No way. Keeping up with security fixes for libav is tedious enough,
> > we cannot reasonably have both. 
> 
> So, the alternatives then are either removing xbmc, mplayer and all
> packages with dependencies on these or switching back to ffmpeg?

All of these packages are generally compatible with libav. The problem
with mplayer is that it hasn't seen an upload since two years. It would
be equally incompatible with current ffmpeg as it is incompatible
with current libav.

If people really need mencoder, the mplayer source package could
be modified so that it only builds mencoder.

Cheers,
        Moritz