Bug#405212: RFP: libx264 -- free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams.

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Sam Hocevar wrote:
> >    Given that I'm also upstream for x264, I'd prefer to maintain it. My
> > packages are at svn://svn.videolan.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/x264 .
> 
> did you see that Fabians packages are already waiting in NEW?

   Then why was I or other upstreams never contacted? At least to
enquire about the ABI/API evolution plans. Shipping a PIC library
means that upgrades are not automatic and as the (co-)maintainer of
two x264-using packages, I don't want to deal with static libraries. I
didn't spend countless hours working on making libx264 buildable as a
shared object to see only a static version in Debian.

-- 
Sam.