On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:39:29 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > On 28.07.2014 02:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun > ><andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > >> * Does it make sense for me to switch my package? > >> The rule of thumb is, if your upstream uses FFmpeg for development > >> you probably want to switch to using it, too. > > > >In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is more > >than uncomfortable with having more than one copy of libavcodec in > >debian/testing. > > I discussed this with Moritz in the ITP bug. Moritz ended this discussion > [a], and as I wasn't convinced by his arguments, I continued my work. If in > the end really only one copy is allowed in the next stable release, I think > it should be FFmpeg. > > >In consequence this means that any package that builds > >against the ffmpeg packages currently in NEW won't make it into > >testing either. I am therefore surprised about the given answer to the > >question above. > > It remains to be seen, what the release team prefers: frustrated users and > developers or both forks in jessie. > The release team is likely to let the people involved in multimedia foo fight it out among themselves and pick a winner. We're not going to ship both and hand that mess over to the security team.
Cheers, Julien
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