Select provider of libav* libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Aug 27, 2014 10:28 AM, "Felipe Sateler" <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What I've found missing in the recent discussion is the approach to
> releases, which was a factor back in the day. If I recall correctly,
> libav has a release process and a merge policy that was better for a
> stable distro. I'm fuzzy on the details, though. Is this difference
> still so?

Well,  I still act as upstream release manager and do spend most of my time
with making sure that all upstream release fit into the Debian release
cycle. For instance I've strongly pushed for the recent libav11 beta so
that we can start the transition in time.  I also am in charge for the the
stable point releases including the uploads to stable-security in the last
three years or so. In that context, I'm making sure that point releases
only contain code changes that are acceptable for stable-security.

Best
Reinhard
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