Select provider of libav* libraries

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi All,

2015-06-09 21:53 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
> Hi IOhannes,
>
> On 09.06.2015 09:03, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote:
>> On 2015-06-09 06:35, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2015, 00:26 +0200 schrieb Andreas
>>> Cadhalpun:
>>>> So one can just use two directories, first run configure in both
>>>> (with the different options), then compile the GPLv2 variant,
>>>> copy the object files (without allcodecs.o) to the GPLv3 folder,
>>>> build the remaining GPLv3 de-/encoders there and link the
>>>> libraries again.
>>>
>>> this sounds like a good idea to start with.
>
> I have now implemented this and it works fine.
> It's in the extra branch of the ffmpeg git repository [1].
I have tested the branch and it works nicely for me.

Is there any other open issue? I would happily sponsor an upload to
experimental with the new -extra package possibly with also providing
libav-dev and friends to if libav maintainers agree and we decide to
start the transition.
Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Balint

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> 1: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg.git/commit/?h=extra&id=1d1bf4062035d6a6c12f40fcaadbf09f74d6db1b
> 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/06/msg00005.html