Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Andres Mejia]

Here are some of the comments Reinhard said on IRC. Placing them here
for recording purposes.

[02:47] <siretart> amejia: in the merged case, I think the -dev
packages can have tight dependencies on the library packages
[02:48] <siretart> amejia: also, I think only libavcodec changes, so
in that case we'd no longer need to provide e.g. libavutil-extra-51
[03:00] <siretart> amejia: ultimatively, I think this change goes into
the right direction. unfortunately, it wont save a lot of effort,
because for ubuntu we'll still need libav-extra and this change needs
to be reverted there. at least for now :-(

With only libavcodec having an extra package, the other extra packages
would need transitional packages. Also, I'm afraid the epoch would
need to be bumped again.

$ dpkg --compare-versions 4:0.8.1-1 le 4:0.8.1.1 && echo true
true

I would like to upload a package to experimental soon. Anyone have any
other suggestions at this time?

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~ Andres