Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 28.07.2014 13:24, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)"
> <umlaeute at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Except that, for a lot of the depending packages, there would be an
>>>   immediate benefit in the number of bugs fixed.
>>
>> at least in theory.
>
> Plus I would definitely appreciate to see some bug stats supporting
> such a theory.

My original mail mentioned some examples.

Once FFmpeg is in the archive, each maintainer of a multimedia package 
could test build it against FFmpeg and see which, if any, of the bugs 
reported against said package vanish.

Best regards,
Andreas