On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I find it more complex and error prone to maintain two libav packages than > one. > >> b) doubles the build-times > > The current situation still does this, only it's worse. The buildd machines > have to perform the setup and cleanup twice for the two source packages on > top of building the two packages. > >> and c) >> doesn't help at all with keeping the diff for ubuntu minimal. > > Why is libav in ubuntu main anyway? Shouldn't it be in universe still, > particularly because most dependencies are in universe/multiverse?
IIRC there are still some KDE parts in main that depend on libav. If we could get libav demoted, that would indeed make things easier, regardless what we decide here. > > How about if another name for the *-extra libs is used, like *-gpl3 for > example? That would require to rebuild the archive again to pick up the new shlibs. Would probably take at least a release cycle. -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers