Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I find it more complex and error prone to maintain two libav packages than
> one.
>
>> b) doubles the build-times
>
> The current situation still does this, only it's worse. The buildd machines
> have to perform the setup and cleanup twice for the two source packages on
> top of building the two packages.
>
>> and c)
>> doesn't help at all with keeping the diff for ubuntu minimal.
>
> Why is libav in ubuntu main anyway? Shouldn't it be in universe still,
> particularly because most dependencies are in universe/multiverse?

IIRC there are still some KDE parts in main that depend on libav. If
we could get libav demoted, that would indeed make things easier,
regardless what we decide here.

>
> How about if another name for the *-extra libs is used, like *-gpl3 for
> example?

That would require to rebuild the archive again to pick up the new
shlibs. Would probably take at least a release cycle.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard