Select provider of libav* libraries

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Bálint Réczey (2015-05-18 16:59:34)
> 2015-05-18 16:45 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>> Quoting Alessandro Ghedini (2015-05-18 14:33:18)
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>> There are multiple ways to handle packages unsuitable for long-term 
>>>> maintenance:
>>>>
>>>>   * Treat as "experimental" - e.g. mpv
>>>
>>> How is mpv unsuitable for long-term maintainance?
>>
>> Oh, I simply assumed that was the case, but since we have an expert 
>> on the matter (yourself) let's ask:
>>
>> Why are some mpv packages targeted experimental rather than unstable, 
>> if not because those specific releases are treated (by you) as 
>> unsuitable for long-term maintenance?
> I uploaded xbmc versions built with ffmpeg to experimental because 
> ffmpeg was not allowed to enter testing but I wanted to provide an 
> xbmc version to our users which has better security support and fewer 
> bugs.
> I could not upload it to unstable since unstable could not have two 
> versions of the package built from the same source and creating a new 
> xbmc-ffmpeg source package would have consume a lot of additional 
> mirror space which I wanted to avoid.
> This solution seems to be trivial and established for trying different 
> build dependencies among developers

Thanks for providing an alternative example, and elaborating on it.


> and I don't really understand why you are asking for explanation.

I thought is was obvious from above that I merely bounced a question 
asked by Alessandro back to himself.

 - Jonas

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