Bug#795718: Don't include libav in stretch

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Moritz,

On 19.08.2015 15:53, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:08:01PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> 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.

I've now sent a minimal patch for freerdp to #788557.
Maybe you feel like NMUing?
I'm tempted to just ignore the vtk6 transition and request the
removal of libav once freerdp is fixed, since there is no progress
with that transition. And after all, it was not coordinated.

Best regards,
Andreas