Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Alessio Treglia]

Hi again,

(replying here to both Reinhard and Bálint)

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I currently read on the wiki page about FFmpeg -> Libav was
> probably appropriate back then, but now two years later, I don't think
> its really appropriate.

This is exactly what I was trying to communicate, apparently I haven't
been clear enough. Sorry about that.

Bálint,

> I think the "Libav or FFmpeg in Jessie" choice is artificial and I don't want to
> legitimize it by writing about XBMC in a context where it is shown as valid.

> IMO both Libav and FFmpeg should be let to enter Jessie and package
> maintainers should have the choice of using either of them.

We want neither to talk shit about FFmpeg nor praise Libav, most of us
simply think that is not appropriate to replace Libav with FFmpeg at
this stage.

Personally I don't care whether FFmpeg will go down its own path to
Debian Jessie succesfully or not.
We (many of us) just answered a question about which one among ffmpeg
and libav should be the provider for libav* libraries.
It is a non-binding, non-political opinion on the subject, and likely
no particular consequences will follow as it's mostly business of the
security team.

Presumably we are not going to maintain FFmpeg either way, so if the
release team is OK with having FFmpeg in Jessie, then it's fine for me
too.

> I think the current state of XBMC does not show the team in a good light
> thus I'm not sure if it is a good idea to talk about in Bits.

Could you please elaborate?

> Given the current FFmpeg/Libav packaging tension, I'm having a hard
> time to come up with a summary of the current state of affairs. One
> option would be to say anything, which I would consider better than
> the current text on the wiki that is two years late.

Sure.

> However, Ideally we would say something about the new
> features in Libav10 and Libav11.

That would be amazing!

> What's the timeline for sending out the announcement? Alessio, I take
> it that you are driving this effort. Maybe you can set a tentative
> deadline when you want to have it sent out?

I'm planning to release it in, say, ~1 week, next Saturday or Sunday.

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