On Oct 6, 2014 3:23 PM, "Alexander Strasser" <eclip...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On 2014-10-06 01:35 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > Timothy Gu <timothygu99 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > The bad news is that the package probably won't migrate to Debian > > > testing in time for the upcoming release "Jessie". The Debian release > > > and security teams have made this decision because of concerns of > > > security and stability with interactions with other Debian packages. > > > > I am mildly against this wording: > > Iirc, the security team said that they consider FFmpeg slightly > > better in security issues but would still prefer avconv and I > > am not sure anybody from the release team ever commented. > > I am against that wording too. The problem with Timothy's > wording is it contains way to much interpretation! My wording > only had "unfortunately" and "bad" because FFmpeg will very > likely not be part of the next Debian release; which I think > is fair enough. The *important* part in my version is that I > encourage people to read the discussion and directly give them > a means to do so by providing a link the relevant bug on the > Debian bug tracker.
Fair enough, though I still prefer pointing out what the "next release" is. > > TL;DR I really think it is important people read the original > discussion at Debian and build up their own opinions about what > was said and done. > > > Perhaps we should just omit the "bad news" paragraph. > > I am obviously against that. +1 too. > > I have locally changed all other things requested by Timothy > and Carl Eugen. I do not think the Libav deprecation message > should be part of this news article. Probably putting it in the > FAQ/other place on the homepage or writing another news article > would be helpful. Though I am not volunteering for that ATM. > > I will wait another day or two. So if you do have objections > voice them soon please. With the changes I requested, the patch LGTM. Timothy _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel