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Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian



On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:39:29 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:

> Hi Reinhard,
> 
> On 28.07.2014 02:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
> ><andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  * Does it make sense for me to switch my package?
> >>    The rule of thumb is, if your upstream uses FFmpeg for development
> >>    you probably want to switch to using it, too.
> >
> >In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is more
> >than uncomfortable with having more than one copy of libavcodec in
> >debian/testing.
> 
> I discussed this with Moritz in the ITP bug. Moritz ended this discussion
> [a], and as I wasn't convinced by his arguments, I continued my work. If in
> the end really only one copy is allowed in the next stable release, I think
> it should be FFmpeg.
> 
> >In consequence this means that any package that builds
> >against the ffmpeg packages currently in NEW won't make it into
> >testing either. I am therefore surprised about the given answer to the
> >question above.
> 
> It remains to be seen, what the release team prefers: frustrated users and
> developers or both forks in jessie.
> 
The release team is likely to let the people involved in multimedia foo
fight it out among themselves and pick a winner.  We're not going to
ship both and hand that mess over to the security team.

Cheers,
Julien

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