Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2014-08-08 14:29:59) > For now, please refer to http://lwn.net/Articles/607662/, > http://codecs.multimedia.cx/?p=370 (rather old, but still true), and > http://codecs.multimedia.cx/?p=674 (recent update on that matter) > > Regarding Marco's argument that libav had few friends, well, let me > point to https://medium.com/libre-parole/libav-is-beautiful-4c1a2c886948 > for instance. > >> IMHO the best idea at this point would be to toss out libav, and rebuild >> the rdeps with ffmpeg. Now, before it's too late for jessie. > > I think that is totally out of question: Uploading FFmpeg to our > archive will break the Debian archive so hard that it will take months > to get everything back to testing, if it works at all. > > To the best of my knowledge, there are only two high-profile projects > that play hardball to require FFmpeg: Mplayer and mythtv. Neither of > those do that (again to the best of my knowledge) mainly because of > technical but rather very political reasons. [snip] > I now seriously wonder if the last 45 minutes in which I wrote this > email wouldn't have been better spent with preparing the next upload > for stable-security. YMMV.
Thanks a lot for your input, Reinhard. Even if the loud ones in this thread may not, I doubt I am the only one finding value in your references and arguments. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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