Select provider of libav* libraries

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Andreas,

2015-06-07 15:24 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
> Hi Fabian,
>
> On 07.06.2015 14:39, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> Am Samstag, den 06.06.2015, 21:29 +0200 schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
>>> Maybe we could even find a reasonable way to implement this in a dh7-style
>>> debian/rules file without doubling the build-time.
>>
>> yes, most probably. I do strongly believe that it is not necessary to
>> clean the source and rebuild *everything* from scratch because of the
>> additional codecs. I am sure it would be sufficient to back up the
>> regular built library and merely call ./configure and make again with
>> the extra rules to build the extra variant.
>
> Yes, something like that should work.
I think implementing the changes upstream instead of in debian/rules
would help other distributions, too, and keep the packaging simple.
I'm not sure how they handle this problem to be honest, but they may
have faced it, too.

Cheers,
Balint