[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.5+svn20090706-1-6-gf90dd6a

[Fabian Greffrath]

Andres Mejia schrieb:
> If we wanted to encourage people to use debimedia, than we shouldn't even 
> mention that they can just comment out that line. Also, not to insult anyone, 

Generally I agree with you. However, I think ffmpeg is an exception, 
because here the code to build extra features *is already there*. 
There is no need to install additional packages that are not part of 
Debian to enable this specific set of encoders. We have artificially 
disabled them and it is really only necessary to comment out this one 
line, so I think we should still offer this (unsupported) alternative.

> but if we wanted to encourage people to use debimedia, we should do a better job 
> of keeping debimedia up to date.

debimedia is still work in progress and is has not even been announced 
yet - at least not outside the pkg-multimedia list. At the moment we 
are tracking unstable, whích is a moving target naturally, and we are 
missing manpower (i.e. Reinhard).

> Also, I don't see how this is more intuitive. What I see is that anyone tracking 
> the ffmpeg packaging will have to keep commenting out that line every time they 
> want to build the restricted encoders. It would be much easier if we would just 
> make use of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS for this kind of case, especially since it's 
> frequently used.

Anyone who wants to activate the missing encoders in ffmpeg will have 
to rebuild the package anyway - each time a new version has been uploaded.

I see no *big* difference between running "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=foobar 
dpkg-buildpackage" and editing a line in debian/confflags. but what I 
find more intuitive is that in order to introduce a *change* in the 
library packages (i.e. activation of restricted encoders) during 
rebuild, you actually have to apply a *change* to the packaging.

> Also, I'm not sure what you mean by documentation, but the change would be set 
> in the build logs, when it would (or use to) show whether or not 
> 'internalencoders' was set. It would also be seen if encoders were being 
> disabled through the ffmpeg build system and it can be checked again with 'ffmpeg 
> -formats'.

People who have to rebuild ffmpeg packages at home usually don't have 
a build log afterwards.

To make it short: I want to avoid that ffmpeg packages that have been 
rebuilt to enable the restricted ancoders look *exactly* the same as 
the official Debian packages - including the diff.gz. It shouldn't be 
possible to activate the codecs "by accident" and then forget about 
it; instead it should be a decision made by the user, it should need 
modification and saving of a file and should in the end also get 
documented in the resulting diff.gz.

Fabian

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