Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 01.02.2012 16:25, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> The proposal doesn't allow me to drop libav-extra in Ubuntu. This
>> means, that 'libav' in Ubuntu/main must not provide
>> libavcodec-extra-53.
>
>
> In this context, it is really necessary for libav-extra to build *all*
> packages and not only libavcodec-extra-53? I mean, e.g. libswscale and
> libpostproc should be pretty unimpressed by a handful of enabled codecs. ;)

Well, having all packages (with tightened dependencies) is more
convinient for the users if libav and libav-extra become out-of-sync.

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regards,
    Reinhard