Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't
Thu, 21 Mar 2013, 5:47 +01:00 from Reinhard Tartler siret...@gmail.com: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Bob Bib bobbib...@mail.ru wrote: And what about making /usr/bin/ffmpeg a symlink to /usr/bin/avconv in future package versions? the Debian package named 'ffmpeg' is transitional in the sense that it will go away in jessie as currently implemented in experimental. A symlink is not a good option as avconv and ffmpeg are not command-line compatible. Oh, I see: * ffmpeg package is available as part of libav 6:0.8.5-1, but removed from 6:9.3-1 (experimental); * ffplay, ffprobe ffserver are available (as symlinks to avplay, avplay avserver respectively) in libav-tools 6:0.8.5-1, but are removed from 6:9.3-1 (experimental). Well, the transition seems to be uniform, let it be. Best wishes, Bob ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't
And what about making /usr/bin/ffmpeg a symlink to /usr/bin/avconv in future package versions? Best wishes, Bob ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't
Package: ffmpeg Version: 6:0.8.4-1 Severity: normal The ffmpeg description is: Description: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package) which is incorrect because the package provides the ffmpeg program (and its man page). Removing a transitional package should be completely safe, but here doing this breaks other software on the machine (e.g. the DownloadHelper Firefox extension, which knows about ffmpeg, but not avconv). Please use another word in the package description such as obsolete. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on: ii libav-tools6:0.8.4-1 ii libavcodec53 6:0.8.4-1 ii libavdevice53 6:0.8.4-1 ii libavfilter2 6:0.8.4-1 ii libavformat53 6:0.8.4-1 ii libavutil516:0.8.4-1 ii libc6 2.13-36 ii libpostproc52 6:0.8.4-1 ii libswscale26:0.8.4-1 ffmpeg recommends no packages. ffmpeg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 692193 wontfix Bug #692193 [ffmpeg] ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't Added tag(s) wontfix. severity 692193 minor Bug #692193 [ffmpeg] ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't Severity set to 'minor' from 'normal' stop Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 692193: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692193 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't
tags 692193 wontfix severity 692193 minor stop On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: Package: ffmpeg Version: 6:0.8.4-1 Severity: normal The ffmpeg description is: Description: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package) which is incorrect because the package provides the ffmpeg program (and its man page). Removing a transitional package should be completely safe, but here doing this breaks other software on the machine (e.g. the DownloadHelper Firefox extension, which knows about ffmpeg, but not avconv). Please use another word in the package description such as obsolete. The ffmpeg binary as distributed currently in unstable has not received attention by our upstream, libav, since early 2011. It is provided only to support software that has not been ported yet to avconv. Please do file bugs against packages that do not with avconv. Those bugs will become RC as soon as the libav 9, which is currently in experimental, reaches unstable. This will happen shortly after wheezy release. -- 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
Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't
On 2012-11-03 13:09:43 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: The ffmpeg binary as distributed currently in unstable has not received attention by our upstream, libav, since early 2011. It is provided only to support software that has not been ported yet to avconv. Please do file bugs against packages that do not with avconv. Those bugs will become RC as soon as the libav 9, which is currently in experimental, reaches unstable. This will happen shortly after wheezy release. Unfortunately, not all software is provided as Debian packages (in particular, Firefox extensions). It would be a bad idea to remove ffmpeg without leaving time for the other developers to update their software. FYI, I've just reported the bug for DownloadHelper: http://bugzilla.downloadhelper.net:8080/show_bug.cgi?id=467 The DownloadHelper conversion guide mentions Ubuntu concerning ffmpeg, so that its developer should be concerned to what happens in Debian. Also note that my main complaint was the wording in the package description (due the transitional package term, I removed ffmpeg several months ago, without knowing that it would remove a binary). -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.net/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
