Bug#706798: transition: Libav 9

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Di, Aug 13, 2013 at 14:30:03 (CEST), Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:56:46 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>> On 13.08.2013 11:48, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> >On Sun, May  5, 2013 at 07:45:40 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> >
>> >>Package: release.debian.org
>> >>Severity: normal
>> >>User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
>> >>Usertags: transition
>> >>
>> >>I would like to upload Libav 9 to unstable at your earliest
>> >>convinience. To get an overview about the size and impact of the
>> >>transition, I would like to drag your attention to the Ubuntu
>> >>transition tracker page here:
>> >>
>> >>http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/libav.html
>> >>
>> >A number of packages are involved in both libav and libx264
>> >transitions.
>> >Do you want to do both of them at the same time, or serialized?
>> 
>> Since libx264 is largely subsumed by libav, I think it makes very
>> much sense to do them both at the same time. I am convinced that we
>> will have less effort this way.
>> 
> OK, feel free to go ahead with both.

I'm currently uploading libav9 to unstable, but I head to weaken the
dependencies for libx264, opencv and frei0r, which all (but frei0r) in
turn require libav9 to build AFAIUI:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/libav.git;a=commit;h=79cad71e56cb2ff50631558f663c8582469a0460

Next steps involve bringing these three packages from experimental to
unstable, and then rebuild libav against them. I'll contact you if
binNMUs of libav9 are possible, or if a sourceful upload is necessary
anyways.

In any case, thank you for scheduling this transition and your great
work on bringing jessie along!

Cheers,
Reinhard

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