Re: Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie
Hi Alessandro,
On 29.04.2015 16:08, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> The decision has to be taken *now*, not in one year.
We should start discussing, sure, but I would be surprised if a decision
could be reached in a time frame short enough to qualify as 'now'.
> Last year, just before the freeze, we (the multimedia team) sort of held a vote
> to decide this, but it went in favour of libav. IIRC the reason people voted in
> favour of libav was that we were too close to the freeze to do anything.
>
> Now would be the time to start that discussion again. So, instead of wasting
> energies arguing against the migration block, I suggest you be the one to
> restart that discussion, given that you are the maintainer of ffmpeg.
As I already wrote [1], I plan to start such a discussion. However I thought that
meanwhile FFmpeg would be allowed into testing, as this seemed what Moritz
suggested: Have both in testing for a year, while discussing further actions.
Therefore I did not expect that this would be controversial.
Best regards,
Andreas
1: https://bugs.debian.org/763148#188
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