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

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> 
>> Based purely on security evaluations by others that I was able to find on
>> the web, FFmpeg appears to be better at the moment than libav on the
>> security front (although libav appears to be trying to catch up).
>
> Hello everybody
>
> At that point, and given the impressive number of users who expressed interest
> for having FFmpeg in Debian (see http://bugs.debian.org/729203), I think that
> it would be fair to ask the libav maintainers to provide arguments on whether
> to distribute both libraries or make a choice, even if it is against their own
> interest since they may see their packages removed at the end.
>
> Otherwise we are in that kind of frequent Debianesque situation where the
> winning strategy is to stay silent as long as possible.

>From what I have read about this situation now and in the past, I would
recommend to bring this to the CTTE right away and ask them to decide
whether the ffmpeg package in Debian should provide libav or ffmpeg.


I think it is unlikely that discussion between the concerned parties
will lead to a consensus, the jessie freeze is upcoming, and almost
every recent CTTE decision took several months. In other words, time is
running out, don't waste it with a pointless discussion on debian-devel.


Best,
Nikolaus

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