Am 26.04.2012 18:18, schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
When I read statements like "Uploading ffmpeg would be a bad idea", it seems to me that the Debian-multimedia team has taken sides on the ffmpeg-libav fork dispute. That is not a position that a Debian team should take. Both ffmpeg and libav remain valuable free software that people want to use. And if someone is willing to do the work, Debian and Debian Multimedia should welcome both ffmpeg and libav.
I disagree and second Andres' statement that uploading ffmpeg into Debian *now* in its current state is a bad idea. This is not because ffmpeg is bad per se - it isn't - it's just that we decided to go the libav route. This switch is not irrevocable, but so far no general problems have occured with libav and I think it fits better to Debian's release model. There is simply no pressing reason to switch back.
Furthermore, currently libav and ffmpeg share the same library name space without being binary compatible - they are just not drop-in replacements for each other. This is also the reason for most of the bug reports we receive from users, who mixed up Debian packages built against libav with ffmpeg libraries from d-m.o.
If we would re-introduce ffmpeg into Debian now, alongside libav, we'd have two choices. Either we get ffmpeg and libav binary-compatible and sustain this compatibility for all subsequent releases. Or we can live with the incompatibility, but then we sould have to rename the libraries of one of the projects and have to build each and every depending package twice, once against libav and once against ffmpeg - with appropriate package dependency declarations and migration plans.
Do you think any of these alternatives is worth the effort? I don't! - Fabian _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
