Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-23 Thread Kieran Kunhya
but either way, id like to suggest again, we move forward and rather discuss how we can improve the situation, do something about the split and move toward un-doing it! We look forward to seeing you in Dublin then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-12 Thread Kieran Kunhya
Also ive offered my resignation in the past. I do still offer to resign from the FFmpeg leader position, if it resolves this split between FFmpeg and Libav and make everyone work together again. I never understood why people who once where friends became mutually so hostile The big elephant

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On 10 August 2014 13:38, Michael Niedermayer michae...@gmx.at wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 06:26:19PM +0100, Kieran Kunhya wrote: [...] ... and was designed by a larger group instead of libswresample which was basically one person (and literally appeared in git out of nowhere). http

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
Most forks cause additional work which, in the long term, is better spent elsewhere. The ffmpeg/libav split is ample proof of that; in an ideal world, you wouldn't need the mythtv fork either. Debian's position is that we _really_ want to avoid having multiple copies of essentially the same

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On 9 August 2014 19:25, Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote: I can understand that statically linking is easier from an upstream point of view, but it has important disadvantages for a distribution such as Debian and thus should be avoided if possible. It is also the