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

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

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.

I understand Moritz's concerns regarding the security fixes and I'm not taking
sides whether ffmpeg should be reintroduced, but if it gets reintroduced without
removing libav, please avoid the rpath hack and use different .so names instead.

Cheers,
Balint