Processing of ffmpeg-free_0.svn20080206-4_i386.changes

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Thank you Reinhard,
>
> now that our most current effort on packaging ffmpeg is in unstable, 
> I'd like to discuss the next steps towards improving the whole ffmpeg 
> situation with you.

I'm sorry that I notice this email this late.
>
> (1) I am going to do a bug triage. There are many very old bugs in the 
> BTS, some are even filed against ffmpeg (i.e. without -free). I'd like 
> to ping the bug submitters and ask them to reproduce the bugs with the 
> recent ffmpeg packages and close or mark the bugs found as appropriate.

Thanks for that. As far as I see, you have done quite a good job on
that! Thanks a lot for that!

> (1b) Many of the bug reports are about missing codecs, esp. missing 
> internal encoders, in the Debian packages. I'd like to send an 
> explanation text (the one from README.Debian) to the bugs and mark 
> them with a usertag, e.g. ffmpeg-stripped-internal-encoder, to get 
> them separated from "real" bugs.

Yes, I agree.

> (2) I am going to get in contact with the upstream authors and submit 
> all of our patches to them. Each patch that they accept can be dropped 
> from the Debian package and leads to a smaller interdiff between 
> Debian and upstream which is a worthy ambition given the current 
> discussion in and around Debian.

That's the idea. I'm still in the process of triaging and understanding
the patches. E.g. I've just dropped all unapplied patches from the
source package.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4