Bug#795718: Don't include libav in stretch

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi All,

2015-08-19 21:18 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
> 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.
I have contacted Laszlo, one of the freerdp maintainters. AFAIK he
started looking into the issue thus the NMU should wait for a few days
IMO.

Cheers,
Balint