ffmpeg status?

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> The comment is obsolete. The current package in testing has altivec
>> disabled.
>
> Oops, I didnt' realize that...
>
>> See #484586
>
> Yes, I know about these bugs, I've just closed one.
>
> I do not believe that it's our fault if Marillat changes package names
> without conflicting against his own older packages. But, well, since it
> doesn't cost anything, we may Conflicts against his unofficial packages,
> of course...

Well, it is of course not 'our' fault. Adding the necessary
conflicts/replaces on libavcodeccvs and co is however pretty easy for us
and we do a big favor to our users using http://debian-multimedia.org if
we are doing that (and we'll get less bugreports about that).

>> called 'ffmpeg-risky', as discuss previously on this mailing list. The
>> 'ffmpeg' called source package would then indicate
>> http://debian-multimedia.org as origin.
>
> Again, I don't understand why the "official" ffmpeg package from the
> Debian archive should leave the name 'ffmpeg' to an unofficial
> repository. It's *us* who provide the Debian ffmpeg packages and I
> believe we should care about private unofficial archives as least as
> possible.

We currently won't be able to provide unstripped packages in
debian/main, and I don't see that happen soon. That's why we go with a
crippeld and potentially an replacement package for non-free. That is
reflected by my proposed naming scheme.

I don't think we are doing our users a service by providing a crippled
ffmpeg package in main called 'ffmpeg'. I think having the source
package reflecting the fact that it is not as upstream released it is
only honest.

>> As you might have noticed, I've started to use bzr-svn when working on
>> the last upload. 
>
> Erm, no, how could I notice this?

bzr-svn adds additional svn properties for tracking bzr file-id and
revision-id mappings. You generally should notice it at all.

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