Select provider of libav* libraries

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Felipe,

On 09.05.2015 16:13, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On 9 May 2015 at 11:03, Andreas Cadhalpun
> <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Felipe,
>>
>> On 09.05.2015 15:55, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> On 9 May 2015 at 10:36, Andreas Cadhalpun
>>> <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> It seemed like a clear consensus, since no further discussion happened.
>>>
>>> I think there cannot possibly be either consensus or disagreement
>>> since only the "DMM cabal" is involved in this discussion. I have so
>>> far refrained from getting involved here because I have no particular
>>> insight to offer either way. But I think this "poll" is meaningless
>>> without asking all (or at least a large portion) of the rdeps
>>> maintainers.
>>>
>>> % grep-dctrl -e -sMaintainer -n -FBuild-Depends \
>>>   'libav(device|codec|filter|format|resample|util|swscale)' \
>>>    /var/lib/apt/lists/cloudfront.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources
>>> \
>>>    | sort -u  | wc -l
>>> 53
>>
>> This is why I CC'ed the maintainers of all reverse (build-)dependencies
>> on my mail with the transition plan.
>> Unfortunately it didn't make it to the list, so I had to resent it.
> 
> Hmm, I seem to have missed that.

It might have ended in some spam filter, at least I suspect that's the
reason the mail didn't make it to the list.

> But in any case my point stands. *IF*
> things are to be decided by poll[1], then at least all stakeholders
> should participate. Did you get any responses as to whether maintainers
> were happy or concerned about switching the libav* providers?

Mike Gabriel pointed me to a mistake in the mail [2].
Probably most have no particular preference either way.

> If not, maybe it's worth another round explicitly asking?

I don't want to spam people, but if you think there is any
benefit, feel free to ask them again. (Maybe BCC'ing would
be better with regard to spam filters?)

Best regards,
Andreas


2: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2015-May/043979.html