Bug#658084: libav-extra: Really necessary?

[Andres Mejia]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here are some of the comments Reinhard said on IRC. Placing them here
>> for recording purposes.
>>
>> [02:47] <siretart> amejia: in the merged case, I think the -dev
>> packages can have tight dependencies on the library packages
>> [02:48] <siretart> amejia: also, I think only libavcodec changes, so
>> in that case we'd no longer need to provide e.g. libavutil-extra-51
>> [03:00] <siretart> amejia: ultimatively, I think this change goes into
>> the right direction. unfortunately, it wont save a lot of effort,
>> because for ubuntu we'll still need libav-extra and this change needs
>> to be reverted there. at least for now :-(
>>
>> With only libavcodec having an extra package, the other extra packages
>> would need transitional packages. Also, I'm afraid the epoch would
>> need to be bumped again.
>>
>> $ dpkg --compare-versions 4:0.8.1-1 le 4:0.8.1.1 && echo true
>> true
>>
>> I would like to upload a package to experimental soon. Anyone have any
>> other suggestions at this time?
>
> Do you volunteer to do at least the first uploads for libav and
> libav-extra for ubuntu as well?
>
> --
> regards,
>     Reinhard

Yes, I'll volunteer, but the first thing I would do for ubuntu is a)
request libav to be demoted back to universe or b) request all of
libav's build dependencies to be promoted to main.

You think any of these requests would succeed?

-- 
~ Andres