[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#647787: Fwd: vidl1: avifile vs ffmpeg (+libav)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

forwarded 647787 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28555849
thanks


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Dear all,

 VXL has been packaged for debian system with avifile binding.
However this library seems dead upstream, and for the next release of
debian this avifile library will be removed [1]. I am tempted to
removed avifile right now (vxl 1.14 release) however the ffmpeg
binding are far from perfect (I wrote them) [2]. So my questions are:

- are you planning to maintain the avifile binding for the next vxl release ?
- are you planning to update vxl to compile with ffmpeg before/after
the libav transition ?

Thanks much !


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647787
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638251

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Mathieu