Select provider of libav* libraries

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On gio, apr 30, 2015 at 12:05:23 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:30:08AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Alessandro Ghedini (2015-04-30 11:19:39)
> > > While the work done by Reinard (and others) maintaining the libav 
> > > package is outstanding and very appreciated, it just seems to make 
> > > more sense to go with ffmpeg. So I vote ffmpeg too.
> > 
> > In what way do you find the work outstanding if essentially unusable?
> > 
> > (not a trick question - I honestly try to understand this)
> 
> Not unusable, it's just that ffmpeg seems to be better (see below).
> 
> Anyway, the libav package is a really complicated one: the upstream project has
> tons of different options and optimizations that need to be handled differently
> on different architectures, the Debian package has many reverse dependencies
> that make testing migrations difficult and time-consuming (it doesn't help that
> libav upstream broke API compatibility so many times), and all bug reports that
> I've either reported or seen have been handled in a responsive and helpful way
> by Reinard.

I've just realized that I've been misspelling his name all this time... sorry.

Cheers
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