Bug#795718: Don't include libav in stretch

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Aug 19 13:53:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:08:01PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> On 16.08.2015 14:27, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > It was decided to switch to ffmpeg for stretch and it's now in
> > testing.
> > 
> > Please remove libav from testing (or rather from unstable unless
> > someone wants to continue to maintain it in unstable/experimental
> > only)
> 
> It has been planned to remove the libav source package from unstable,
> once the transition to ffmpeg is fully finished.
> Unfortunately this transition is currently blocked by two packages:
>  * freerdp needs a new upstream version, but the maintainers are
>    unresponsive. (#788557)
>  * vtk6 still has old binaries using Libav in testing, because
>    the uncoordinated vtk6.1 -> vtk6.2 transition broke some
>    of its reverese dependencies. (#793621)

Ok, thanks. Let's wait until these are sorted out.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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