Select provider of libav* libraries

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2015-06-23 13:59 GMT-07:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
> Hi Matteo,
>
> On 23.06.2015 21:51, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote:
>> On 2015-06-23 at 17:56 (CEST), Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Is there anything left to be fixed before we can start the transition?
>>
>> Yes, the total disappearance of FTBFS in [1].
>
> Most of those FTBFS are completely unrelated to this transition.
> Thus the affected packages will either get fixed by their maintainers
> or auto-removed from testing, totally independently of the transition
> to FFmpeg.
> Only gpac, gst-libav1.0 and taoframework would FTBFS due to the
> transition. The first two can be fixed at any time (patches exist),
> but taoframework hardcodes the sonames and thus can only be updated
> after the transition has started.
>
>> If I was a Release Team member, I wouldn't allow anything to happen
>> before all that mess is fixed.
>
> Calling this a mess is a little bit exaggerated, when comparing
> with previous Libav transitions...
>
>> Feel free to retry a call for transition once the list is empty.
>
> It's quite unreasonable to expect this list to get empty. It hasn't
> been empty at any point during the past year and I don't expect
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg will ever get fixed. (That aside, taoframework
> will always be on the list, as it hardcodes the sonames...)
>
> Patches for all FTBFS issues caused by the transition to FFmpeg
> are available/trivial, so the affected packages could be NMUed,
> once the transition starts.
>
> This should be all preparation the Release Team could possibly want.
I have prepared the upload for gpac in git which fixes the FTBFS for
both Libav and FFmpeg. Alessio or I will upload it.
The other reverse deps are there for refence only. They are broken for
reasons not related to this transition which I now marked accordingly.

If you find anything to fix related to the transition, comments are
still welcome. Please check the new experimental banch in ffmpeg's
packaging repo as well.

Cheers,
Balint