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

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Reinhard,

2013/12/16 Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for working on xbmc. BTW, Are you in touch with Andres about that?
I tried to reach him and team-xbmc@lists.launchpad.net several times
without success.
Now the MIA Team is tracking him, too.
Unfortunately it takes ~10 weeks to have his packages orphaned and then I can
adopt and update xbmc and libcec (a dependency of xbmc).

>
> In any case, please do file bugs, preferably upstream, for any
> functionality that xbmc requires but is lacking in libav.
I'll do so.

Cheers,
Balint