next steps with ffmpeg and mplayer

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Tue Mar 3 07:32:39 UTC 2009


Hi Team, hi Christian,

I feel I need to give a short status update about the current state of
the ffmpeg and mplayer package.

mplayer is currently severly broken in unstable, see #516933. mennucc1
decided to update the internal ffmpeg copy to match debian's using a
dpatch. Since ffmpeg was updated, the mplayer package must do so as
well. However, I think we don't need that dpatch of mplayers copy of
ffmpeg matches the copy of the ffmpeg-debian package.

For that reason I've decided to start working on ffmpeg. Upstream is
currently preparing a 0.5 release, which I'd like to include in
unstable. The changes are actually pretty small to what we currently
have in unstable, so I see no problem with uploading it to unstable
directly, since the ffmpeg transition will not finish shortly (not only
because of mplayer blocking the transition).

In order to manage the release, ffmpeg upstream has branched of a
0.5-release branch. I've already updated the get-orig-source.sh script
in ffmpeg to track that branch (yet unpushed, currently
testbuilding). If all goes well, I can upload a
ffmpeg-debian_0.svn20090303+0.5release-1 to unstable today or
tomorrow. Along with that, I'm also going to produce a package with the
replacement packages (libavcodec-unstripped-52, and so on), and will
announce the url to download the build as soon as it is ready.

Now a few questions:

Do you all agree with my approach? Or do you prefer targeting
experimental instead? Is this all sane?!

Christian, do you prefer to include both
ffmpeg-debian_0.svn20090303+0.5release-1 and the
ffmpeg_0.svn20090303+0.5release-1 in debian-multimedia.org, or just the
latter one? Technically only the latter one is really necessary, since
the former one will go to unstable...

Mennucc, as you can see, I've already started to clean up the mplayer
packaging branch. I'd like to do some further cleanups, including
switching to quilt because that's what we use the ffmpeg package. The
next upstream update will most certainly drop nearly all of
debian/patches, so it seems like the perfect oppurtunity to do that step
now. Is that (and my work in general) okay for you?

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4



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