Re: Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie

[Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>]

* Andreas Cadhalpun (andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com) [141005 22:36]:
> That's because the last message from a release team member in this bug  
> said [1]:
> 'However (and please note that I'm not a member of the security team
> and just speak for myself here as always when not otherwise marked) if

As I said, I was just speaking for myself. That I might be at other
times speaking as a member of the release team doesn't make it an
opinion of the release team. For the release team opinion on this
topic seen Cyrils mails.

Also, the re-evaluation happened. It however didn't had the outcome
you wanted (basically because the web browser needs so many security
updates which only could be done by backporting all of it that the
embedded copy doesn't make any difference - this is an exceptional
thing which does happen but not very often. I can understand it, and
of course it's the call of the security team how to ensure that Debian
has security updates. I hadn't know that at the time I though about
the possibility, otherwise I would have already achived at that moment
at the conclusion).


Conclusion: Though I'm usually an optimistic person how to get things
achived, I don't see any way left how at this late time it's possible
to ship with ffmpeg in jessie. I'm sorry but we have to face the
facts. Independend if we like them or not (and I can fully understand
that you don't like them, but it's no good pretending facts are
different than they are). Sorry.


Andi