Hi Antonio,
On 23.08.2014 16:07, Antonio Ospite wrote:
Hi Andreas, I am the maintainer of libam7xxx, the recipient of #758348.
I am curios: will the user choose what libraries to link to (libav or
ffmpeg) using the "update-alternatives" mechanism?
Or will the libav and ffmpeg packages conflict one with the other?
Actually, neither of the two is the case. ;)
The maintainers of multimedia packages (e.g. you) will choose between
depending on e.g. libavcodec-dev (from Libav) or libavcodec-ffmpeg-dev
(from FFmpeg).
If libavcodec-dev is chosen, the binaries will be linked against
libavcodec.so.55 from the libavcodec55 package and if
libavcodec-ffmpeg-dev is chosen, they will be linked against
libavcodec-ffmpeg.so.55 from libavcodec-ffmpeg55.
The runtime libraries are co-installable, only the development packages
conflict. Thus one can e.g. install and use both ffmpeg and avconv packages.
I hope I could answer your question.
Best regards,
Andreas
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