Select provider of libav* libraries

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 18.06.2015 18:57, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2015-06-09 21:53 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
>> I have now implemented this and it works fine.
>> It's in the extra branch of the ffmpeg git repository [1].
> I have tested the branch and it works nicely for me.

Thanks for testing it. :)

> Is there any other open issue?

The altivec optimizations on powerpc are still disabled, but I don't think
this should delay the transition. I intend to fix this one way or another
before stretch is released anyway.
And currently FFmpeg 2.7 failed to build on ppc64 (due to changes in configure,
fixed upstream) and sparc (unaligned access causing SIGBUS, problem has been
there for ages, but the test coverage increased recently, patch sent upstream).
I expect FFmpeg 2.7.1 will fix those, so once that is in unstable, it would
be a good time to upload the package for the transition to experimental.

> I would happily sponsor an upload to
> experimental with the new -extra package possibly with also providing
> libav-dev and friends to if libav maintainers agree and we decide to
> start the transition.
> Any thoughts?

I've put my transition plan on the wiki [1].

Best regards,
Andreas

1: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg#How_Debian_should_switch_to_FFmpeg