Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

Andres Mejia amejia004 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 23:34:59 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 21, 2012 4:40 PM, "Micah Gersten" <micahg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/21/2012 06:40 AM, Andres Mejia wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Do you volunteer to do at least the first uploads for libav and
>>> >> libav-extra for ubuntu as well?
>>> > 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?
>>> libav can be demoted next cycle when KDE gets demoted to universe.
>>>
>>> Micah
>>
>> Great thanks.
>>
>> Reinhard, did you wanted 0.8.1 in precise? Betafreeze is tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for the notice, yes I did, and unfortunately, I'm travelling
> and won't be at home before friday. Could anyone from the team please
> upload 0.8.1 to precise for me before the freeze? Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> regards,
>     Reinhard

I'm not an Ubuntu developer I'm afraid. At best I could have something
ready for someone to review and sponsor for an upload to Ubuntu.

We could always ask for a freeze exception. After all, this new
release brings a lot of security fixes.

-- 
~ Andres





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