Sorry, forgot to CC bug tracker... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Timothy Gu" <timothyg...@gmail.com> Date: Feb 3, 2014 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Bug#729203: CTTE and reasonable solutions To: "Antoine Beaupré" <anar...@debian.org> Cc:
On Feb 3, 2014 3:12 PM, "Antoine Beaupré" <anar...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 2014-02-03 17:13:43, Rogério Brito wrote: > >> Rogério, I would suggest you go ahead with the packaging and an upload, > >> don't let the flames fan your enthousiasm. > > > > Thanks for the encouragement, Antoine. I am mostly paralized with this > > situation and I don't really know how to proceed. I think that the forces of > > having to potentially fight the tech-ctte, the pkg-multimedia-team, the > > ftp-masters and some other people is that is preventing me right now from > > packaging ffmpeg all by myself. > > I am not sure you should fight anyone here. Do the package, may it > policy-clean and it will pass NEW. > > If someone wants to bring up something with the ctte, they can do it, > but you don't have to right now. > > Having a discussion on pkg-multimedia may be necessary if other package > dependencies should be changed, and it is probably good practice to > discuss this topic on that mailing list, but it seems to me that people > shouldn't object to the inclusion of another package in debian solely on > the ground that they do not like it. > > If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a > drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose. Mostly, but even with FFmpeg's attempt, not entirely IIRC. I tried to use abi-compliance-checker once, but failed, and i didnt have much time to delve into how to use it. Also Debian's very own ABI checking program icheck has some bugs, ironically, on testing FFmpeg http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427461. > > We have a policy for such procedures. Our social contract also says we > should respond to the needs of users, and the overwhelming majority of > people on this issue have voiced their need for a working ffmpeg > implementation in Debian. We should respond to that. Exactly. [...] Timothy