next mplayer upload

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Tue Jun 9 06:10:47 UTC 2009


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

>> I would expect all team members to read the list :p
>
> Sure, but in a VCS the text could be improved by everyone.

we can also give suggestion via email. IME the barrier to actually
review and post comments is lower when using email than putting it in
VCS and have fellow team members to clone/update the repo first, locate
the affected package, copy relevant parts to an email,etc.

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I like the wording. Where do you want to place it?
>> debian/README.Debian? and what do you propose as shortmessage for
>> debian/changelog? That will be the first ftp-master will look at.
>
> Yes, this should go into README.Debian (or README.Source?). Some of the
> other paragraphs would have to get improved, though, to not leave the
> content of the file in a contradictory state.

Right, can you perhaps post a diff of README.Debian to this list? You
can still commit locally, and use 'git commit --amend' to improve the
patch incrementally.

> As soon as we upload an unstripped source, we should switch the name
> back from ffmpeg-debian to ffmpeg IMHO. We can describe this in
> debian/changelog like this:
>
> 	ffmpeg(4:0.5+svn20090420-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>
> 	* Built from unstripped ffmpeg source code.
> 	* Renamed source package back to ffmpeg from ffmpeg-debian.

I'd like to keep the ffmpeg-debian source package name until we are
positive that this is going to work in debian. Don't get me wrong, the
naming of the ffmpeg package are confusing at best, but I'd like to
cleanup the whole mess in a single step. The reason for that is that the
unstripped packages are published in ubuntu for a couple of releases
now, and we need to (well, at least I really want to) provide a proper
upgrade path for users already using libavcodec-unstripped-52 packages.

> 	* Disabled patent encumbered codecs during configure phase
> instead of stripping of the source code.
>
> Just an idea...

Otherwise, the notes for debian/changelog look fine!


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