On Saturday 23 January 2010 05:10:20 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Picking up an old thread from October, > > On Do, Okt 15, 2009 at 21:28:03 (CEST), Loïc Minier wrote: > > Perhaps we should just go for a) and have a ffmpeg in experimental for > > Debian next. Not too handy for Ubuntu though, but we could have a PPA > > there. > > Now that we have ffmpeg with symbol versioning in unstable, I think we > can now finally start working on this. > > I propose to start a new branch 'master.snapshot' and upload it to > experimental with a version number of e.g. ffmpeg_0.6~~svn20100123-1 or > something.
Wouldn't it make more sense to continue with a version number "0.5+svn<DATE>"? Not that it really matters to me, I'm just curious as to why "0.6" already? Also, shouldn't the package be named ffmpeg-snapshot, ffmpeg-trunk, or something similar? > However, I expect it to be stuck in new, probably for a very long time, > just like the mplayer package. I don't think this is a problem, because > we can still publish the package on alioth or somewhere. > > >> Still, how often do we want to update such a snapshot package? and > >> who is volunteering to keep it up to date? > > > > I think how often as we like / see fit. Sometimes gcc-snapshot > > doesn't get updated for a while, but when testing of an upstream fix > > is desired, a new one is just pushed for testing. > > Thinking further on that, I agree that regular updates in experimental > are not really necessary. Instead I'm imaginging a cronjob that runs in > a svn checkout with the debian/ directory for experimental mounted in it > and uploads updated snapshots to a PPA for ubuntu. > > Manual uploads to experimental would only be necessary if packaging > changes like soname bumps or similar occur in svn. > > Since I don't see major drawbacks in this approach, I think I'll work on > such a package next and probably discuss this with the ffmpeg folks at > FOSDEM. > I'll volunteer to help if you wish. I could do regular uploads of the package depending on what interval you wanted. Of course I'll leave the initial packaging setup up to you. -- Regards, Andres _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers