ffmpeg package on debian-multimedia.org

[Reinhard Tartler]

Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> writes:

>> I do hope that this work is able to avoid having 2 completely
>> differently packaged versions of ffmpeg around.  I'm looking forward
>> hearing from you. If something is missing or you have any question, just
>> tell me, and I'll definitly consider patches ;)
>
> I see only one problem with the Debian package, only one or two new
> svn release by year isn't enough. In normal condition I'm doing a new
> svn release every (at least) 15 days.

That shouldn't be a problem. In fact, I'd love to have a more or less
up-to-date snapshot in debian/experimental as well. The main thing that
has been blocking me on that is an really easy way to get an updated
orig.tar.gz I fixed that by writing some a helper script that can
produce both an 'crippled' orig.tar.gz as required per debian ftp-master
and an 'uncrippled' one which users actually want to use. Both can be
created by the 'get-orig-tar' target. The variant is choosen by looking
at the first line of debian/changelog, see the source for details.

Btw, you might or might not know, I'm using these packages for ubuntu as
well. We have something similar to debian/experimental there as well,
called Personal Package Archives (PPAs), where the package can be
updated at any time.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4