Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 01.02.2012 16:02, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> Sorry, I disagree with that approach. It a) increases the complexity
>> of the packaging considerably, b) doubles the build-times and c)
>> doesn't help at all with keeping the diff for ubuntu minimal.
>
>
> Well, I think that's debatable. Having two separate source package for the
> sake of two additional codecs could also be considered as increased
> complexity.

It's the status quo. And I don't believe that the implementation of
what you guys propose will be any less complex than what we currently
have.

> And if I understand it right, it's only libavcodec that needs to
> get rebuilt with a slightly different set of confflags, i.e. the ones that
> enable the codecs in question. These could be set to different values (i.e.
> different additional codecs) depending if the package is built for Debian or
> Ubuntu.

The proposal doesn't allow me to drop libav-extra in Ubuntu. This
means, that 'libav' in Ubuntu/main must not provide
libavcodec-extra-53. And now things start to become way to complex for
me to think further about it. Sorry, but no thanks.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard