Re: Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie
On 29.04.2015 20:47, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:33:07PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>> Having both for a year along each other will only waste people's time. Now
>>> at the beginning of the release cycle is the time to make a decision,
>>> not by dragging things into a year as of today. Picking one of the two
>>> won't be any simpler in 12 months.
>>
>> I just fear that the decision making process will take long, especially
>> if the TC has to get involved. (The libjpeg-turbo TC decision took 1 year.)
>>
>> Having ffmpeg in testing during this time would be nice, e.g. so that people
>> using testing can easily compare them.
>>
>> Was that not what you meant with [1]:
>> "It certainly possible to have them co-exist for a year or so"
>
> Honestly at this point I don't believe we'll need a year to sort out whether
> it'll be libav or ffmpeg.
>
> I'll refrain from mentioning my personal preference for now, but IMO
> one of the two is preferable in almost all aspects, so picking the lib for
> stretch shouldn't take that long.
OK, then I'll try start that discussion on pkg-multimedia soon.
But I'll have to take care of something else first.
Best regards,
Andreas
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