Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On 12-01-31 at 04:30pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Di, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:37:23 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> > I think what we are doing with libav-extra is a bit insincere. We
>> > pretend to play fair by only building packages against the GPL-v2+
>> > libav libraries but then offer the possibly license-incompatible
>> > GPL-v3 libraries from the libav-extra packages for runtime linking.
>>
>> So why is that insincere? What's the problem with that?
>
> Problem is that other packages can carefully ensure not violating
> licensing when linking against libav, and libav-extra then "distorts"
> that by causing Debian as a whole to not ensure against same violation.
>
> How about having libav-extra package conflict with other packages known
> to not be compatible with the tighter licensing?

That would be an option. Another option would be to have those
packages declare a conflicts on libav-extra.

nit: wouldn't the "breaks" relationship be more appropriate here?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard