Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard, thanks for taking care about this issue!

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> I noticed that debian-multimedia.org (and ubuntu) include an libmp4v2-0
> package. Is the created libmp4v2-1 from this package really ABI
> incompatible to the proposed package? If not, then SONAME should not
> have been bumped.

I usually rely on upstream deciding about SONAMES and I believe there 
was a reason for Edward to bump it to 1 when he released his fork from 
mpeg4ip (which had it at 0). And to be honest, I couldn't care less 
about library sonames in debian-multimedia or ubuntu. ;)

> I'm holding back with the upload of this package until Fabian confirms
> that he is aware of this issue and wants to have it uploaded anyway, or
> (preferably) the library versioning is clarified.

As far as I understand it, upstream isn't working on version 1.x 
anymore and the currently prepared 2.x version will be incompatible to 
its predecessor anyway, so I see no reason not to upload soname 1 to 
Debian right now and port applications to the new (incompatible) ABI 2 
as soon as it has been released.

What I consider the real blocker for this package is its usefulness. 
It seems that all applications that could use it are either 
license-incompatible or fail as candicates for Debian for other 
reasons. :(

Thanks again,
Fabian


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