Enable faad support in ffmpeg/experimental

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I have no problem in having regular updates of ffmpeg in
>> experimental. And I agree, we should really update the package in
>> unstable as well, just perhaps less often than in experimental.
>
> Why?! If we want to improve both the code and the packaging we need as
> much feedback as possible and should not "hide" the packages in
> experimental.

In principle I agree with you. However, ffmpeg has quite some reverse
dependencies now, and uploading a package with SONAME change (or even
worse: ABI breaks without soname change) would make transition of
dependent package really hard. The release team wouldn't be please of
that, since this could potentially delay the release.

> Release fast - release often (and fix bugs)! ;)

Indeed. Therefore I suggest that we update the ffmpeg package in
experimental NOW, get it built and somewhat tested and talk to the
release team about uploading it to unstable.

>> I'm not aware of any progress. AFAIUI, MPEG encoders are not accepted
>> in debian/non-free. The plan was to make the packaging in a way that one
>> can "create" a package suitable for debian/main easily from a "non-free"
>> package, which will be distributed outside the debian mirror network.
>
> This is why I wanted to implement the get-orig-source rule in
> debian/rules. You should be able to download exactly the same source
> code that was used for the Debian package - *including* the stripped
> codecs. This way the complete packaging (including all patches) would
> still apply and you could roll your own ffmpeg-packages with the
> smallest interdiff relative to the "original" Debian packages.

Yes, that would be great. Do you have already worked on that?

>> Moreover, I could imagine that derivative distribution might want to
>> accept the "non-free" package in their archives..
>
> Yes. Or repositories offering unofficial Debian packages that do not
> want to diverge from the "original" Debian packages as much as
> e.g. debian-multimedia does.

Indeed.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4