Select provider of libav* libraries

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Sat May 9 13:36:18 UTC 2015


Hi IOhannes,

On 09.05.2015 15:18, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 05/09/2015 02:46 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 09.05.2015 14:29, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>> But since there seems to be a clear consensus in favor of switching to
>>>> FFmpeg in Debian
>>>
>>> where did you get that impression from?
>>
>> From the recent discussion in this list:
>> Bálint [1], Alessandro [2], Fabian [3] and myself [4] expressed their
>> preference for FFmpeg.
>> You expressed your preference for having both [5].
>> Nobody expressed a preference for staying with Libav.
> 
> so that's 5 votes (if you count me) pro ffmpeg; and one person
> explicitely did NOT vote, btw.
> 
> i wouldn't say that this is a "clear consensus", esp. as a reply to a
> request for reinhard to (re)state his position.

It seemed like a clear consensus, since no further discussion happened.
I hadn't expected that Reinhard was unaware of the discussion.

> and btw, reinhard is still listed in the "uploaders" field. i don't
> think that dismissing him as maintainer just because sebastian did the
> recent uploads will help us.

I didn't dismiss Reinhard, I merely observed that Sebastian took care
of the maintenance recently and thus asked for his position specifically.

Best regards,
Andreas



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