Bug#750817: ITP: x265 -- x265 HEVC Encoder

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-06-09 20:06:53, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 wnpp
> >
> > On Sb, 07 iun 14, 08:47:41, Rico Tzschichholz wrote:
> >> Package: x265
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>
> >> Package: wnpp
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>
> >>
> >> Package name    : x265
> >> URL             : https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/Home
> >> License         : GPL2, BSD
> >> Description     : free library for encoding H265/HEVC video streams.
> 
> This package is going to be maintained under the pkg-multimedia umbrella.
> 
> Since this package is probably going to be similar to x264, I guess
> it's easiest to track the github mirror of the upstream mercurial
> repo.
> 
> It seems that there is no upstream mailing list, nor other way to
> contact the upstream devs at this point. Luca, can you confirm or
> correct this?
> 
> I took a first look at the package, and it builds a shared library by
> default (good). Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a proper SONAME:
> 
> $ objdump -p libx265.so | grep SONAME
>   SONAME               libx265.so
> 
> This makes me wonder if it's worth building it as shared library in
> debian as this point, or if we wouldn't be better of with a static
> library only. I wonder what is upstream's take on this?

I've started to work on x265. The upstream build systems is a lot saner
now. The shared library has a proper SONAME and it's no longer necessary
to patch the build system.

The inital packaging can be found at
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/x265.git. I'm going to
play with it a day or two and then I'll probably upload it.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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