Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Do you volunteer to do at least the first uploads for libav and
>> libav-extra for ubuntu as well?
>>
>> --
>> regards,
>>     Reinhard
>
> Yes, I'll volunteer, but the first thing I would do for ubuntu is a)
> request libav to be demoted back to universe or b) request all of
> libav's build dependencies to be promoted to main.
>
> You think any of these requests would succeed?

micahg mentioned that a) is likely to happen after the precise release
(which will happen end of april).

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard