On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:30:26PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 02:25:18PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > How do you plan to address the DSA veto against having both sources in
> > the archive?
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00668.html
>
> I did not intepret that message as a DSA veto.
"this simply isn't managable at all"
> But, with regards making
> sure the DSA are happy with whatever we do, we'll do that by talking to
> DSA - which, last I checked - was not you.
As long as you do that before you start spending time on it that's
a reasonable approach.
> You clearly have nothing constructive to offer with regards getting
> ffmpeg back into Debian and satisfying the users who are craving it.
> Can I suggest you therefore focus your efforts on something else,
> preferably something constructive, and leave this bug alone?
My constructive contribution is to show a way forward that has at
least a chance.[1]
And to point out the issues you will face with your approach.
You are not doing any users a favour by choosing an approach that cannot
over an approach that might work.
If you want me to shut up, get DSA approval and then prove me wrong by
showing that what I called "insane" is actually doable.
cu
Adrian
[1] assuming FFmpeg is actually better than libav - I don't know much
about the arguments the libav side might bring
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