On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > I also find it fairly rich that you complain at a lack of answers, and > yet don't reply to pings to a BR asking for an update. The reason I did not reply is that I was working to find a solution to the bug, but I did not find it. > You seem to be confused, these aren't the same transition. The one > mentioned in 2007 transitioned on 2007-07-05, five days after the mail. > Perhaps the fact that the source package name has changed in the last > year is causing an issue for you? OK, I get the point. > > You do not see the weekends I spent in the last 3 months trying to > > link mplayer to ffmpeg-free in Debian. > > > > This is good, but should have happened sooner. This bug has been open > since Sarge was stable. ffmpeg-free 0.svn20080206-1 was uploaded in experimental in 2008-03-30. Before, AFAICR, a C structure in libavcoded was different, there was no hope of linking. > > I regularly upload new versions, and > > fix as many bugs as I can each time. > > But not enough to fix a RC bug that's been open since 2006. I fix all bugs that can reasonably be fixed. When ffmpeg in Debian was too obsolete to link to mplayer, there was nothing I could do. Since 2006, many things happened; for example, in http://bugs.debian.org/403330 I asked for a new version of ffmpeg, but 403330 was closed by the version 0.cvs20070307 that became rapidly obsolete wrt mplayer 1.0~rc2 a. -- Andrea Mennucc "The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human being who wants me to know what I can do." Anonymous, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420
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