[FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is more
> than uncomfortable with having more than one copy of libavcodec in
> debian/testing. In consequence this means that any package that builds
> against the ffmpeg packages currently in NEW won't make it into
> testing either. I am therefore surprised about the given answer to the

"More than uncomfortable" does not mean "will not be included"

> I think it would be best if ftp-master left the ffmpeg package in NEW
> until an answer to this problem has been found.

Why, only because libav gets a more powerful and efficient 
competition?

> I am curious why this is your first email about this matter to
> pkg-multimedia, and why do you write this email only now?
> 
> Moreover, I am curious why I haven't seen you working on libavcodec
> bugs in Debian before, and why do you believe you can do a better job
> with the ffmpeg package currently on NEW?

As Marco said, why should he fix bugs in av which have been fixed since
ages in ffmeg in many (most?) cases?

I am all for having a good ffmpeg set of cmd line progs and libs in
Debian. It is too long that this sad and useless split was made.

Norbert

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