Hi, Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 16:51 schrieb Mario Limonciello: > The other day John Dong and I were talking on IRC about the current > situation with ffmpeg. There are two versions of ffmpeg (and some related > applications) out there: one on our archive and one on medibuntu. The one > on medibuntu is the same source package as the one in our archive but it is > built with encoders. > > Personally I think its really unfortunate to have to do it this way. It > seems like the exact reason that we have an area like multiverse. Several > ffmpeg and lame based projects already live there. > > John had said he thinks the plan was to eventually move ffmpeg into main, > so there wouldn't be much expectation to move it from universe to > multiverse and just turn everything on. To this I proposed that we would > modify the source package for ffmpeg to generate binaries twice. The free > binaries could end up in universe or main whereas the non free would end up > in multiverse.
hm... I have heard that a universe source package could generate binaries for both universe and multiverse, but I'm quite sure that it's not possible to have a multiverse source package generate a main binary. So that would probably mean that the patent encumbered source would (once ffmpeg moves to main) reside in main, not too sure if that's ok. > > In order to avoid confusion and the necessity of using Replaces/Conflicts, > a third virtual package binary that depends on either the free | non-free > variant can also be generated. Sorry I don't understand this right now. What would that virtual package solve? Cheers, Stefan.
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