Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-03-19 at 08:59am, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Fabian Greffrath 
> <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> > Am 19.03.2012 03:59, schrieb Andres Mejia:
> >
> >> Though the build time is increased for libav, ultimately, this 
> >> change would be better as the buildd network would not have to cope 
> >> with building from two source packages (i.e. setting up and tearing 
> >> down for libav and libav-extra for each architecture). Also, in my 
> >> opinion, it is easier and less error prone to maintain a single 
> >> libav package rather than two of them.
> >
> >
> > I generally agree with your proposal, although "easier and less 
> > error-prone" is in the eye of the beholder, of course. At least I am 
> > currently a bit lost in your proposed diff against debian/rules. ;)
> >
> > In this context, please remove the libav-source binary package as 
> > well. It is of no further use (that I know of) if the libav-extra 
> > source package is removed. Also, please make sure that only the 
> > dynamic libraries are rebuilt for the extra packages, not the static 
> > one (don't know if it is already like this; as I said, the diff is a 
> > bit too much for me on a Monday morning ;) ).

> I think the libav-source package will still be useful. There are 
> people who like to activate/deactivate certain features of libav. They 
> can use the libav-source package and ensure they have a build with all 
> the patches applied for the Debian builds of libav.

I disagree: That argument would apply for *any* package in Debian.

Binary packages containing sources is a special construct specifically 
for our build system, not needed for direct exposure to our users: Users 
who want to recompile packages can much easier do so by forking the 
source package.


 - Jonas

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