Select provider of libav* libraries

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Sebastian,

On 01.06.2015 15:33, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2015-05-30 17:54:46, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>  - Sebastian, you made the most recent uploads of the Libav package
>> where I handed off upstream releases to you, but I don't recall you
>> participating in this thread. I also know that you have been
>> interacting with Libav upstream in the past. I'd be very curious to
>> hear your thoughts on this issue, would you mind sharing them?
> 
> I have lost track of all the discussion happening around this topic. Can we get
> wiki pages that give a nice overview like we had for the
> systemd/sysvinit/upstart discussion [1]?

If you tell me where and how, I can put my arguments on a wiki page.

> Where can I find the current transition plan?

My proposal is in the mailing list archive [2].
It also contains a summary of the arguments for switching to FFmpeg.

> Will ffmpeg build the LGPL and GPL variants as libav did or are all reverse
> dependencies suddenly compatible with the GPL variant?

Currently Libav only builds GPL-2+ and with libavcodec-extra* GPL-3+
libraries.
Since the only additional functionality of the extra variant is limited
to an AMR encoder [3]. Thus I don't think this justifies the additional
complexity of the extra variant.

Best regards,
Andreas

2: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2015-May/044639.html
3: https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2014/11/msg00008.html