Bug#774800: libav: take measurements not to include or automatically download binary blobs

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 20:17 +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: 
> Do you understand the change you've linked to?
As I've said, I've only had a "first glance" i.e. looking at the commit
log, which mentioned that the downloading must take place, but didn't
clearly say whether this is automated or not.

> I don't see a downloader anywhere.
Checking the current commit, I don't see one either (but OTOH that one
within firefox was also quite "hidden")... but this isn't the point of
this bug, is it?
I didn't say remove an existing downloader, I've said "take measurements
not to include or automatically download binary blobs",... i.e. by
adding a note to you internal maintainer TODO list or whatsoever.


> The user needs to download OpenH264 and rebuild libav to get
> OpenH264 support.
>  So as long there is no package in Debian providing
> OpenH264, there won't be support for it in the libav package.
If it stays like this, then everything would be fine, but then I don't
quite understand why the commit log emphasizes the blob and why they
talk about a wrapper (or is this just because of the unstable ABI)? That
sounded quite like as if auto-downloading the blob for the user's
"convenience" was the planned way to go.


Cheers,
Chris.
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