Re: FFmpeg vs. libav packaging

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> schrieb:
> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>>> Having both sets of libraries in the archive at the same time is what I
>>> called "insane" in the RFP and where I expect additional probems due
>>> to:
>
>> Also, I expect the security team would be unhappy to have to fix
>> security issues twice.
>
> If they're now diverging separate source bases, this isn't really
> different than the other cases where upstreams have forked and for various
> reasons we've found uses for both implementations.

But we still try to minimise such cases as much as possible. And for
libav/ffmpeg this simply isn't managable at all due to the huge stream
of security issues trickling in. We need definitely need to pick one
solution only.

Cheers,
        Moritz