Proposed list of issues in ffmpeg/experimental

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> If it is on libs.private only, and the libs does not appear in the
>> output of `pkg-config --libs libavcodec`, then I'd argue that it is not
>> the job of libavcodec-dev to have that dependency. In that case,
>> Suggests might be a better option.
>
> No, it does not appear in the output of `pkg-config --libs libavfoo` for
> any of the libraries. To be honest, all of the libraries report nothing
> but their own name for the 'pkg-config --libs' call. If you add the
> --static' option then the output changes, of course.
>
> Following your idea, we could also remove all dependencies from the
> libavcodec-dev package or at least demote them to Suggests?

I think so, since we shouldn't encourage package maintainers to link
statically against libav*

Loïc? How do you think about this?

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