Helping with Maintenance of Packages in Debian

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-04-30 at 09:56am, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 28.04.2012 03:18, schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> >We do not disagree at all on this point.  I'm not saying that we 
> >should just upload ffmpeg as is, obviously it would be stupid to 
> >upload ffmpeg if it broke things. But we should welcome anyone who 
> >wants to do the work to make it possible to install libav and ffmpeg 
> >at the same time, or any other reasonable solution.
> 
> Please do not forget that Andres' statement (that it's a bad idea to 
> upload ffmpeg packages to Debian) was addressed at Mr. d-m-o, who has 
> not yet shown the faintest interest to make his packages 
> co-installable with ours but instead raises epochs to give his 
> packages precedence whenever possible.

I think noone is "forgetting" that, Fabian.

I agree with Hans-Christoph that we should - in principle, even if 
unlikely to lead anywhere - be open to having both libraries in Debian.

We should certainly very seriously warn anyone showing interest, that it 
is in no way an easy task: there is sane reasoning behind our chosing to 
so far only maintain one of them, and also sane reasoning to which of 
them we've chosen.

In the past I have followed the kernel team and occasionally someone 
suggests to add a new kernel flavor - e.g. with realtime improvements, 
and there is a big difference between receiving the response "no - go 
read the archive of this list to figure out why!" and "warning - this 
has been discussed many times and the burden is on you to demonstrate 
relevancy and sense of your approach!".

Result in both cases is most likely the same, but the atmosphere caused 
by those two kinds of responses are _very_ different.


 - Jonas

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