Select provider of libav* libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about
> reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1]. The security team made clear [2]
> that they will only support one provider of the libav* libraries. So
> either libav or FFmpeg could go in the release and the other library has
> to stay in experimental (or unstable with a RC bug). The maintainer of
> libav is the Debian Multimedia team and therefore it is up to us to
> decide whether we want libav or FFmpeg in Debian 8 (jessie).
>
> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg?

Libav, see my previous emails that I posted on this mailing list on
this topic for rationale.

> Can we reach a consensus on this topic?

So far I don't see disagreement on this within our team.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard