Re: Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie
2015-04-29 15:27 GMT+02:00 Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
> <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Therefore I'm planning to discuss a possible transition from
>> Libav to FFmpeg with the maintainers of the reverse dependencies,
>> before asking the TC for a resolution.
>
> What if one or more maintainers do not agree with you to make his
> packages break away from libav? What result are you aiming to achieve?
> Splitting multimedia packages up in two groups, each one depending on
> a different implementation of the same interfaces? And on the basis of
> what?
Libav and ffmpeg provide different interfaces and different
implementation in ffmpeg's current packaging solution.
Having packages depending on alternative implementations is business
as usual and upstreams have different preferences. Usually maintainers
are free to choose any other package as dependency whichever they find
the best fit for their package and IMO it is a good practice. This bug
is not about removing Libav this bug is about handling ffmpeg fairly
and letting it migrate to testing at least for a year.
>
> I feel that we'd better *first* decide on which one between ffmpeg and
> libav we want to keep, and drop the alternative.
I think you have the wrong feeling. Please consider the costs and
benefits instead of feelings. We can have both in even stable. The
cost of Libav + FFmpeg is slightly more than Libav only, while
upstreams and users are screaming for FFmpeg.
Cheers,
Balint
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