Bug#471136: Please package upstream snapshot 20080206

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I looked at what gentoo ships currently, trusting the gentoo ffmpeg
>> developers (lu_zero) to choose an appropriate snapshot date. If you
>> agree, let's try to have that version working and upgrade afterwards, ok?
>
> Allright, I am fine with this!
>
> Gentoo is sometimes a really good resource for patches and other
> packaging-related ideas. Do you believe it is possible to win the Gentoo
> maintainer over for the Debian pkg-multimedia team? ;)

They are using a completely different patchset than we do. First, I'd
like to understand what patches WE are shipping and why, then look why
marillat ships an nearly unpatched ffmpeg and THEN compare with the
gentoo patchset. Then I'd like to talk with lu_zero. This is of course a
lot of work, and I definitely will need help with that, e.g. by looking
at the patches and adding an explanatory header discribing what the
patch actually does as if it was an submission for upstream.

>
>> Help on that would be more than welcome!
>
> No problem, but you need to tell me in detail what steps you did to
> obtain the tarball which is currently found in
> <http://people.debian.org/~siretart/tarballs/>.

Oh, I did this (out from memory, untested):

svn export -r{20080206} \
	svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk \
	ffmpeg.20080206
# libswscale is just an unversioned redirect, so we have to export it
# properly by hand
rm -rf ffmpeg.20080206/libswscale
svn export -r{20080206} \
	svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/libswscale \
        ffmpeg.20080206/libswscale

cd ffmpeg.20080206/ && \
	svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-multimedia/experimental/ffmpeg.20080206/debian	&& \
	sh debian/strip.sh

The last step is of course for the disabling of the encoders. A proper
get-orig-source would of course offer an option to skip this step.

And used the directory ffmpeg.2070206 

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4