On 2014-02-03 17:13:43, Rogério Brito wrote:
>> Rogério, I would suggest you go ahead with the packaging and an upload,
>> don't let the flames fan your enthousiasm.
>
> Thanks for the encouragement, Antoine. I am mostly paralized with this
> situation and I don't really know how to proceed. I think that the forces of
> having to potentially fight the tech-ctte, the pkg-multimedia-team, the
> ftp-masters and some other people is that is preventing me right now from
> packaging ffmpeg all by myself.
I am not sure you should fight anyone here. Do the package, may it
policy-clean and it will pass NEW.
If someone wants to bring up something with the ctte, they can do it,
but you don't have to right now.
Having a discussion on pkg-multimedia may be necessary if other package
dependencies should be changed, and it is probably good practice to
discuss this topic on that mailing list, but it seems to me that people
shouldn't object to the inclusion of another package in debian solely on
the ground that they do not like it.
If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a
drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose.
We have a policy for such procedures. Our social contract also says we
should respond to the needs of users, and the overwhelming majority of
people on this issue have voiced their need for a working ffmpeg
implementation in Debian. We should respond to that.
A.
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