FFMpeg package maintenance, was: Multimedia Teams in Debian

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> 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.

Obviously there *is* a demand for these packages, since repos like 
debian-multimedia and medibuntu keep on distracting users and effort 
from the main distros for years.

> 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.

Sure. There is of course some crap in these archives, but there are 
also many valuable software packages (e.g. transcode, avidemux, 
cinelerra, mythtv come to my mind) that are not available in the 
official Debian archive. We should really think about what is needed 
and try to get these packages in Debian.

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