Multimedia Teams in Debian

[Loïc Minier]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>                       In the case of ffmpeg, where there are no released 
> tarballs, it would make sense to directly track the git repository (ie, the 
> upstream branch is a clone of upstream's master branch). In either 
> case, "upstream" releases should be tagged (eg, upstream/x.y.z~svn123 as 
> git-buildpackage tags them). The debian diff is not a diff against upstream's 
> tip, but against these tags.

 Unless there's absolutely no generated files when disting ffmpeg, I
 prefer we don't do that and instead import tarballs in the git tree.  I
 understand this is archaic, but all situations can be handled simply in
 this scheme, with a classical approach.  When you try git pulling from
 upstream, you might end up with removed files reappearing from the
 tarball, or keeping generated data in git.

> 2. The maintainer field should be set to...

 A real maintainer when there's an interested one -- when this happens
 people care more personally for the package -- and the team as
 uploader.  The team as maintainer when nobody wants to take primary
 reponsability for a source.

> 4. How to manage upstream sources?

 Import tarballs, stripped or not or both.

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Loïc Minier