Sorry, forgot to CC bug tracker...
On Feb 3, 2014 3:12 PM, "Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
Mostly, but even with FFmpeg's attempt, not entirely IIRC.
I tried to use abi-compliance-checker once, but failed, and i didnt have much time to delve into how to use it.
Also Debian's very own ABI checking program icheck has some bugs, ironically, on testing FFmpeg http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427461.
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> 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.
Exactly.
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Timothy