Hi Reinhard, 2015-07-11 15:01 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>: > > Keeping the libavcodec-extra packages makes very much sense to me, thank > you. > > Do you need help with uploading to experiemental? As soon as it is in I sponsored Andreas' uploads, but I'm away from my computer for a few hours. I can upload the package later today but I'm pretty sure if you sponsored this one Andreas would not mind, maybe he would be even happier. :-)
> experimental, we can start with filing bugs tracking FTBFS issues in > application packages. As usual, I'd suggest tracking them with usertags, so > that you can point to a dynamic list of todo items in the transition bug. > The release team is likely to insist that only if all bugs for packages that > are in testing have been addressed before allowing to upload to unstable. I think we are not required to fix packages which are already broken for reasons not related for the transition but regarding the others let's rock! :-) > > Regarding src:libav, I see little point in keeping it, so yes, let's just > request its removal when nothing depends on it anymore. I'm OK with that, but if upstream/some other maintainers would like to keep it in the archive I'd prefer keeping it in unstable and renaming the binary packages. Cheers, Balint > > > Reinhard > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015, 7:34 PM Andreas Cadhalpun > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 08.07.2015 10:39, Alessio Treglia wrote: >> After a careful review of all the pros and cons we, the Debian >> Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav >> to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries. We'll try >> our best to make this happen in time for stretch. > > The next step is uploading the ffmpeg package taking over the lib*-dev > packages to experimental. > I've decided to keep the libavcodec-extra package instead of making it > transitional, as it might be useful for people wanting to always have > the latest version of the extra variant installed. Without that, one > would have to install the libavcodec-extraNN package after every > soname change. I've updated the experimental branch in the ffmpeg > repository accordingly. > > I'd like to go forward with that, or did you have more comments, > Reinhard? > > The next question is, what to do with the src:libav package. > Reinhard, did I understand you correctly that you think it would be > best to not rename its lib*-dev packages and just remove it after > the transition? > Otherwise an upload with the renamed lib*-libav-dev packages should > be made to experimental, as well. > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
