next steps with ffmpeg and mplayer

[Reinhard Tartler]

Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:
>> the package is created directly from the master.unstripped branch. If
>> you have any suggestions, improvements etc. feel free to send me patches
>> using git-format-patch(1), and I'll integrate them.
>
> A simple diff isn't enough ?

A simple diff is perfectly OK. git-format-patch would include additional
metadata like the author information and date, which isn't preserved in
a unified diff.

> First problem the directory in the tarball must be called
> ffmpeg-0.svn20090303 instead of a simple ffmpeg.

How is this a problem? dpkg-source will take care of this.

> For the package number, I think a simple 3:0.svn20090303-0.0 (all my
> package use a -0.0) is enough. Don't need to add 1unstripped1 after -.

I'd like to keep that, because:

 - the diff is cleaner (I use git diff to verify the delta between the
   branches 'master' and 'master.unstripped'

 - I've been doing so in ubuntu for over a year, so I know that my
   versioning scheme works even when considering backporting

 - having the 1unstripped1 makes it clearer in bug reports what variant
   of the ffmpeg package the reporter has installed. just using 1.0 or
   0.0 obfuscates this piece of information a bit.

Do I overlook arguments why 0.0 would be better?

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