Select provider of libav* libraries

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2014-08-27 0:47 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> there was a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about
>> reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1]. The security team made clear [2]
>> that they will only support one provider of the libav* libraries. So
>> either libav or FFmpeg could go in the release and the other library has
>> to stay in experimental (or unstable with a RC bug). The maintainer of
>> libav is the Debian Multimedia team and therefore it is up to us to
>> decide whether we want libav or FFmpeg in Debian 8 (jessie).
>>
>> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg?
>
> Libav, see my previous emails that I posted on this mailing list on
> this topic for rationale.
>
>> Can we reach a consensus on this topic?
>
> So far I don't see disagreement on this within our team.
Wearing my XBMC maintainer hat I would vote for FFmpeg, thus there is
no consensus.

I would like to see FFmpeg at least in experimental to make an
informed judgement and let us _and others_ compare the libraries.

Cheers,
Balint

PS: I'm following the thread on debian-devel.