On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2014 10:28 AM, "Felipe Sateler" <fsate...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> >> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> there was a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about >> >> reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1]. The security team made clear [2] >> >> that they will only support one provider of the libav* libraries. So >> >> either libav or FFmpeg could go in the release and the other library >> >> has >> >> to stay in experimental (or unstable with a RC bug). The maintainer of >> >> libav is the Debian Multimedia team and therefore it is up to us to >> >> decide whether we want libav or FFmpeg in Debian 8 (jessie). >> >> >> >> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg? >> > >> > Libav, see my previous emails that I posted on this mailing list on >> > this topic for rationale. >> >> What I've found missing in the recent discussion is the approach to >> releases, which was a factor back in the day. If I recall correctly, >> libav has a release process and a merge policy that was better for a >> stable distro. I'm fuzzy on the details, though. Is this difference >> still so? > > Well, I still act as upstream release manager and do spend most of my time > with making sure that all upstream release fit into the Debian release > cycle. For instance I've strongly pushed for the recent libav11 beta so that > we can start the transition in time. I also am in charge for the the stable > point releases including the uploads to stable-security in the last three > years or so. In that context, I'm making sure that point releases only > contain code changes that are acceptable for stable-security.
That is excellent news, and I'm not sure the wider audience knows this. For comparison, do you know how the ffmpeg release process works? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers