Bug#395252: ignore bug 395252 'mplayer embeds ffmpeg' for lenny

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> I know that it is tricky, but I still think that for the problem we are
> facing, this is an acceptable solution. YMMV of course.

Fine, but how about all the other packages that depend on ffmpeg, like 
gstreamer, vlc and xine. They do also ship embedded copies of ffmpeg 
source code. I fear these packages could suffer from the decision to 
gear our ffmpeg library packages to mplayer releases.

>>From the last remarks I have heared from upstream is that they want to
> wait this year's GOC and integrate the results from that. After that a
> release could indeed happen, depending on the available manpower, of course.

I'll have to see it to believe it. :)

> Short: there is not enough interest in maintaining stable releases. This
> means additional efford for: 
>  - tracking bugs
>  - fixing bugs
>  - write release notes 
> etc.

Come on, thousands of even smaller software projects face these 
problems regularly and nevertheless get releases going.

> FFMpeg and Mplayer developers have a rather large overlap. I cannot
> imagine that you can convince them to restrict themselves to the public
> ffmpeg api, but good luck with that!

Then they shouldn't distinguish between these two projects and refrain 
from releasing the libraries separately - at least if mplayer does not 
build with the separately relased libraries.

BTW, how large is the overlap of ffmpeg developers with vlc or xine?

Cheers,
Fabian


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