Proposed list of issues in ffmpeg/experimental

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> I have some issues on my TODO list for the ffmpeg packages we are 
> currently preparing for experimental.
>
> - Enable Dirac support via libschroedinger: I have already added the 
> Build-Depends and set the appropriate confflag. However, I have not 
> yet checked if libschroedinger will appear as an additional Dependency 
> of libavcodec-dev.
>
> - Add an Epoch to the version number to keep the ubuntu interdiff 
> small: I think this is a reasonable since non-invasive change. Should 
> we add "3:" or "4:" ?

4: seems overkill to me.

> - Build libavfilter instead of vhook. I've seen there are two 
> confflags for this and I don't know what the second 
> (--enable-avfilter-lavf) is for. I also don't know if further changes 
> are needed to get it working, e.g. explicitely disable vhook.

Okay, so you really want to force people to use libavfilter? Well, since
we need to go through NEW anyway, I'm okay. That way libavfilter will
get some additional attention, I reckon.

> - Remove some of the old Conflicts and Replaces entries in 
> debian/control that point to packages that aren't even in oldstable 
> anymore once Lenny is released.

Good idea! Feel free to commit!


> - Some cosmetic change, in debian/control: I'd like to reorder the 
> packages alphabetically and improve the descriptions a bit. Any 
> objections?

As Loïc points out, the reodering can be troublesome in some
cases. While we are most probably not bitten by this, does this have
other reasons than comsmetics? If not, please don't.

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