ffmpeg status?

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>  - multiple build flavors, so that we can have both an altivec and
>>    non-altivec verison of the package.
>
> AFAIU it is not possible to build an non-optimized shared library at all
> on PPC? Any news on this front?

The comment is obsolete. The current package in testing has altivec
disabled.

>>  - Conflicts/Replaces with the 'old' marillat packages
>
> Hm, well, Marillats newer packages allready do the Conflicts and are
> thus fixed in this regard. Is this really our problem?

See #484586

>>  - an ffmpeg-doc package containing the doxygen documentation
>
> Fine, this should fix at least #438369.

yes.

>
>>  - rename the source package from ffmpeg-free to ffmpeg-restricted on
>>    request from upstream.
>
> WTF? Rename the tarball again?
>
> I hope this is both to get rid of the misleading '-free' suffix and to
> prepare the upload of an unstripped tarball named 'ffmpeg', right?

well, it leads into that direction, yes. However we still need to
communicate this with debian ftpmasters first before actually
uploading. Nevertheless, I plan on working on such a package, but rather
called 'ffmpeg-risky', as discuss previously on this mailing list. The
'ffmpeg' called source package would then indicate
http://debian-multimedia.org as origin.

As you might have noticed, I've started to use bzr-svn when working on
the last upload. It worked fairly well and helped me a lot to test
and develop things independently, e.g. the ubuntu version of the ffmpeg
package. I plan to continue this way, and have the 'ffmpeg-risky' source
package as branch of the current one. Too bad that svn doesn't play
decently when it comes to merging, though...

>> In principle we can already start working on all of these issues and
>> upload to experimental first (to get around NEW without interfering the
>> transition) and then back to unstable.
>
> Allright!

Well, let's get cracking!

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