FFMpeg package maintenance, was: Multimedia Teams in Debian

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> It might be a little bit off-topic, but I've seen some initial effort in
> our SVN recently (i.e. gmerlin) and would like to propose this as a
> general long-term objective: As a united debian-multimedia team, let's
> try to get as much packages as possible from Marilllat's archive into
> Debian. I believe that most of his packages could make it into the
> official archive without much hassle and that some others could be dealt
> with via debianisms (imagine ffmpeg and mplayer).
>
> What do you think?

I have mixed feelings. on the one hand, this surely seems to be a great
idea to improve debian. On the other hand, I'd like to avoid to avoid to
clutter our set of maintained packages (and therefore the debian
archive) with substandard packages nobody cares for anymore.

In debian we have a history on deciding each package addition on a case
by case basis by the means of filing RFP/ITP package bugs. Let's
continue that and maintain a list of pkg-multimeida/debian-multimedia
FRP/ITP bugs on wiki.debian.org. Grouping (and querying) can be
implemented using usertags.

If a package is an import from marillat, sure, if it help with packaging
then it should be explicitly noted in the ITP.

(after rereading this mail I noticed that I've written a lot of rather
obvious stuff. I do not mean to add additional burocracy beside grouping
"Team-ITPs" to our procedures, which I tend to think is useful to know
what's going on in the team)

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4