Select provider of libav* libraries

[Alessio Treglia]

Hi,

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Balint Reczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> Thank you for sharing your opinion and vote.

Could you please quote ***only the parts*** to which you are  replying?

> We now have 7 votes for FFmpeg:
> Bálint [1], Alessandro [2], Fabian [3]  Andreas [4], IOhannes [5],
> Dmitry [6] and Fabian [7].

Do you seriuosly feel comfortable in the shoes of a vote-counting
machine and plan to keep sending periodical updates on this poll?
Well, if so please stop it as Jonas's sentence «there's no need to
repeat yourself if you have nothing *new* to say» applies to all of
us, you included.

> Alessio, if you would like to change your vote this may be a good time
> for that.

I wouldn't. And now let's keep the discussion go on and wait for
others to share their view.

Cheers.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Andreas Cadhalpun (2015-05-15 17:16:36)
>> On 15.05.2015 11:13, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2015-05-15 09:23:13)
>>>> Also, given that Libav supports significantly less codecs and
>>>> formats (and in some cases specific variants or features of codecs),
>>>> many security issues simply don't apply.
>>>
>>> I find above important, not only for security but for long-term
>>> maintenance in general.
>>
>> Unfortunately that argument is misleading at best, as I explained in
>> my reply to Reinhard's mail.
>
> Yes, you voiced your opinion already.
>
> Now please let others voice there opinion too - there's no need to
> repeat yourself if you have nothing *new* to say.
>
>
>>>> What project is less effort for the security team?
>>> Nowadays the security team has a distinct way of flagging packages as
>>> not-security-supported (see e.g. package debian-security-support).
>>>
>>> If we consistently treat the libraries as boring vs. exciting like I
>>> propose above, the security team might be convinced to tolerate both
>>> in stable - flagging the exciting one and anything linked against it
>>> as unsupported by them.
>>
>> I suggested something like that for jessie, but the reply was that having
>> no security support means essentially that it's unfit for stable.
>
> What I propose is not "something like that", nor is it for Jessie.
>
>
>  - Jonas
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