Hi, On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: > That leaves the question of the "official" opinion of the libav > maintainers (pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org). > Did none of them write anything in "defense" of libav, or have I simply > missed it? > > IMHO the best idea at this point would be to toss out libav, and rebuild > the rdeps with ffmpeg. Now, before it's too late for jessie.
This is an eminently bad idea. As I said before, it's too late for Jessie already. Many Jessie's multimedia framework and packages have been developed and QA'd with libav. We've spent a lot of time over the past months talking to upstreams, forwarding them our patches and make sure their programs and libraries work with libav. We've spent ***months*** in making the whole thing work, and dropping libav in favour of FFmpeg at this point, roughly few weeks from the freeze deadline, would be definitely insane. Cheers. -- Alessio Treglia | www.alessiotreglia.com Debian Developer | ales...@debian.org Ubuntu Core Developer | quadris...@ubuntu.com 0416 0004 A827 6E40 BB98 90FB E8A4 8AE5 311D 765A _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
