Select provider of libav* libraries

[IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)]

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On 2015-05-17 22:53, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I use bleeding edge tools for some of my own work.  And I use
> FFmpeg for some of that.  But I will continue to use bleeding edge
> tools for that work - which renders it irrelevant for judging what
> is relevant for long term maintenance in Debian.

my personal situation is:
- - i use Debian
- - i (need to) use bleeding edge tools

this obviously makes my a user of testing/sid (trying to avoid
experimental as i historically had some problems with that - and if
only is about stalling while fetching tons of Packages updates for the
one or two packages i actually use).

so i can use bleeding edge tools whenever they enter sid, which means
that they probably will enter stable at some future time (any package
entering sid should reach stable somewhen; some don't, but that's not
how it *should* be).
but if a package is unfit for stable due to un-existing long term
maintenance, it will never show up in sid :-(

your suggestion with using experimental suggest a way to fix that
problem. however, i'm not sure whether the number of users going on
through the hazzle of enabling experimental would make up for the
additional maintenance burden.


fgmasdr
IOhannes


PS: ah; that was probably adding nothing new to the discussion; but
then i'm under the impression that few posts do; e.g. i think we can
come up with anecdotal evidence against any documented reason why an
upstream decided to use one library or the other
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