next mplayer upload

Felipe Sateler fsateler at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 06:40:03 UTC 2009


El martes 9 de junio, Reinhard Tartler escribió:
> Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:
>
> > 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.

Also (as I think you mentioned somewhere else), by skipping NEW, if ftpmaster 
doesn't like this new state they will have to take explicit action. This can 
then be appealed to the TC. If the package is left to rot in NEW, no appeal 
can be made because no decision has been made.

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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