On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Here are some of the comments Reinhard said on IRC. Placing them here >>> for recording purposes. >>> >>> [02:47] <siretart> amejia: in the merged case, I think the -dev >>> packages can have tight dependencies on the library packages >>> [02:48] <siretart> amejia: also, I think only libavcodec changes, so >>> in that case we'd no longer need to provide e.g. libavutil-extra-51 >>> [03:00] <siretart> amejia: ultimatively, I think this change goes into >>> the right direction. unfortunately, it wont save a lot of effort, >>> because for ubuntu we'll still need libav-extra and this change needs >>> to be reverted there. at least for now :-( >>> >>> With only libavcodec having an extra package, the other extra packages >>> would need transitional packages. Also, I'm afraid the epoch would >>> need to be bumped again. >>> >>> $ dpkg --compare-versions 4:0.8.1-1 le 4:0.8.1.1 && echo true >>> true >>> >>> I would like to upload a package to experimental soon. Anyone have any >>> other suggestions at this time? >> >> Do you volunteer to do at least the first uploads for libav and >> libav-extra for ubuntu as well? >> >> -- >> regards, >> Reinhard > > Yes, I'll volunteer, but the first thing I would do for ubuntu is a) > request libav to be demoted back to universe or b) request all of > libav's build dependencies to be promoted to main. > > You think any of these requests would succeed?
micahg mentioned that a) is likely to happen after the precise release (which will happen end of april). -- 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
