Select provider of libav* libraries

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What I've found missing in the recent discussion is the approach to
releases, which was a factor back in the day. If I recall correctly,
libav has a release process and a merge policy that was better for a
stable distro. I'm fuzzy on the details, though. Is this difference
still so?


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler