Providing non-stripped ffmpeg libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> I suggest we use an *unstripped upstream source* for the next upload
> to Debian and explicitely disable the affected codecs in the configure
> call (which is what already done now in debian/confflags
> anyway). [...]
>
> Since we would not want to introduce this upload secretely and since we
> will not have to go through the NEW queue to get the attention of
> ftp-masters, we should drop them a line on the list or in the
> debian/README.Source file. [...]
>
> So what do you think?

I have proposed to Ganneff in the past, but he was very hesitant towards
this idea. From the lack of communication on his side, I conclude that
he is either too busy or not too interested in giving the issue the
necessary thought. For this reason, I now rather agree you. Let's find a
good formulation for debian/README.Source, upload to unstable, and copy
these lines to ftp-master. If they object to this, they'll have to
reply.

BTW, on the ubuntu side, Mark Shuttleworth has agreed (with his
Lead-of-the-Technical-Baord-hat on) that the stripping is not necessary
for ubuntu. If we do the first step in debian for the next upload, that
would minimize the difference between the distros.

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