On 2010-12-31 14:36:57 (+0000), Carl Eugen Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote: > Pascal Bleser <pascal.ble...@...> writes: > > > So the idea with "option 3" would be to provide both: > > - we would keep the current approach in the "regular" repository (or > > repositories) > > - we would also *additionally* provide a frozen repository with the > > "essential" packages (as said, ffmpeg, mplayer, mad, gstreamer, ...), > > and only update those when there are critical bugfixes or security > > fixes > > (I of course can't speak for gstreamer - we believe it simply serves no > real-world purpose and that is of course meant polemically - and I don't think > any Packman user needs mad, I at least can't imagine a situation. Was mad > really > updated lately?) > There is nothing "stable" that you could use as "frozen repository" in FFmpeg > and MPlayer (there were only too few updates to Packman MPlayer in the last > months). So far, the so-called "releases" always were ancient (and therefore > unusable) at the time of the "release". They only exist because it allows to > add > FFmpeg to the Ubuntu repositories. End-users should never get in touch with > them > (and no bug-reports are accepted for anything else than latest svn). > While this may sound as if, it is not meant polemically, I am just trying to > stop you from doing something that does not help any user (and you seem to > agree > that it would mean some extra work)!
With "stable" I did _not_ mean a "release", at least not for ffmpeg and mplayer which don't make any releases anyway. I meant "something that works", and keep it at that version instead of updating it all the time. If we have a combination of ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, mad, gstreamer and a few other things that _do_ work, there is no reason for most people to always get the latest version. It works, that's good enough for most. [...] cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <[email protected]> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org
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