Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?
+++ Bálint Réczey [2013-12-15 23:27 +0100]:
> 2013/12/15 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> > 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?
> Regarding xbmc please don't remove it.
> It works with libav to some extent and I'm tyring to convince upstream to
> let me join the team responsible for packaging. I plan keeping xbmc working
> with libav unless ffmpeg gets reintroduced to the archive.
Mythtv is in the same boat. (except it's not yet made it to the archive,
with a big chunk of the delay being to do with sorting out ffmpeg/libav
compatibility AIUI). However the packages are now in a useable state and
I think it's likely to enter reasonably soon (hooray!).
The same considerations apply.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570611
https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/deb
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