Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 03.02.2012 17:11, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> Well, having all packages (with tightened dependencies) is more
>> convinient for the users if libav and libav-extra become out-of-sync.
>
>
> If out-of-sync means ABI-incompatible, then the other -extra packages won't
> help anyway.
>
> Would you accept a patch against libav-extra that changes it to only build
> (all flavors of) libavcodec and change the Conflicts of the other libraries
> to Depends? So that e.g. libswscale-extra-2 would depend on the (identical)
> libswscale2 instead of conflicting against it.

What problem would this solve?

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regards,
    Reinhard