Bug#203211: RFP: avidemux -- A small editing software for avi (especially DivX)

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 05.01.2012 16:55, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> I'm a bit confused now. Fabian noticed that Fedora's avidemux 2.5.3
> package already did unbundle ffmpeg. Is this untrue? Or did I
> misunderstand you two?

No, I just noticed that *some* libraries are unbundled and that the 
package Build-Depends on ffmpeg-dev, whereas I have not found any 
effort to unbundle ffmpeg itself and use the system libraries instead. 
I found that perplexing and that's the very reason why I contacted 
Richard in the first place.

> We would be happy to share the work and take your patches for using
> the system libraries for the Debian package. Besides, have you by
> chance already asked upstream to comment on your patches? If yes, what
> was the response?

For the four libraries I mentioned in my initial mail, these are 
mostly trivial patches which change around three lines each.

> That's great to hear! Maybe we (i.e., in Debian) should, directly look
> at packaging the 2.6 development branch.

If this drops (or at least make it possible to drop) the patches 
against ffmpeg, definitely!

> Yes, that would probably be helpful for preparing the Debian package.
> Do you use some VCS for your packaging work? In case you are
> interested in our current packaging branch, it is at
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/avidemux.git

Let's work together on this (i.e. the unbundling of ffmpeg from 
avidemux and packaging of the newest avidemux version for which this 
is actually possible), co-operations with Fedora have always turned 
out satisfactory in the past - at least this is my personal perception. ;)

  - Fabian