Bug#526007: [FFmpeg] libxxx-unstripped should also Provide libxxx

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> indeed.
>>
>> I'm working on updating ffmpeg anyway, but my tree is not ready to be
>> pushed yet. I'll implement the change for this bug on that occation as
>> well.
>
> Wait a minute...
>
> Would removing the multiple copies of debian/control* mean that it is
> not possible anymore to rebuild unstripped packages from what you get by
> "apt-get source ffmpeg"?

Well, unfortunately yes. I thought that this was clear, but after
rethinking the discussion, I have to admit that thight might have not
been clear at all.

> If this is true, I am strongly against it! We shouldn't bother our users
> to check out a separate git branch of our packaging of which 90% is in
> place already anyway.

TBH, I feel that we can give *much* clearer instructions using git than
with instructing how to mess around with debian/control*. Heck, we could
even script that.

Wait a minute...

How do you think about installing a script
/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/build-unstripped-packages.sh, that use
git-buildpackage + dependencies to build these replacement packages from
git.debian.org?


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