Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Micah Gersten]

On 03/21/2012 06:34 PM, Andres Mejia wrote:
> 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.
>
Would anyone mind if I just used the new upstream version without
merging?  Does precise need any of the other changes made recently?