call for testing: ffmpeg-debian (0.svn20080206-9)

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Wed Jul 2 11:11:04 UTC 2008


Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

>> May I take your mail as agreement to the updated README.Debian?
>
> In general yes. But I think we should first describe *why* we strip the
> source code and then describe the naming scheme in detail. This would
> mean changing the first and the second paragraph in
> README.Debian. Alternatively there could be a reference to the second
> paragraph from one of the early sentences in the first paragraph:
> "Due to the MPEG encoders issue pointed out below, the ffmpeg packaging
> has seen many renames in the course of its history..."
> (Note that it still says ffmpeg-free in the second paragraph).
>
> And I propose another change in the third paragraph:
> "The license for the whole work is the GPL, not the LGPL, because
> GPL-only parts of ffmpeg were activated. If you need LGPL versions of
> the libraries, please comment out the appropriate lines in
> debian/confflags'."

Both comments added, but feel free to just edit the file in svn!

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Gruesse/greetings,
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