[SCM] x264 packaging branch, karmic, created. 0c2781c658077d7a0d96e38d9f8735ed363443f7

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Sun Jun 14 16:30:22 UTC 2009


siretart at users.alioth.debian.org writes:

> The branch, karmic has been created
>         at  0c2781c658077d7a0d96e38d9f8735ed363443f7 (commit)

okay, I think this needs a bit explanation.

In ubuntu, there is already a history of x264 package. I pondered what
package to take as basis. Three choices would have been possible:

 a) our outdated x264 package from svn
 b) marillat's
 c) ubuntu's

I've choosen c), because it is based on b), which itself seems to be
based on a) (or the other way round, doesn't really matter here, because
marillat has updated it way more often than we did.

Fabian, do you want to take a look at the package? I've removed everyone
but me from uploaders because I'm really not sure who wants to work on
the package. Of course everyone is welcome, so everyone feel free to
send in patches and add yourself to debian/control.

Next step: create a 'master' branch targeting sid, and provide a script
that downloads our branch and produces a binary package. IIRC Fabian was
not too convinced about putting such a build script in the ffmpeg
package. Do i remember this right? Perhaps we should put these scripts in an
extra git repository. This would have the advantage that we could sign
tags to get some trust path here.

comments welcome!


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