On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 21.02.2014, 08:45 +0530 schrieb shirish शिरीष: >> Can somebody state for the reasons of a split of libavcodec54 and >> libavcodec-extra-54 ? The only diff. I could see between both of them >> are/were the three decoders which are in the extra-54 which are not in >> libavcodec54. > > Could anyone in the team give an estimation about how long we need to > hold up that separation? I mean, are there any sightings in the wild of > packages that link against libavcodec but are GPLv3-incompatible? And, > if yes, how do we prevent them from being installing and run with the > libavcodec-extra package anyway?
>From vlc's debian/changelog: [...] However, this package is linked to LGPL v3 libraries. So while the source is GPL v2 or later, this package is GPL v3 [...] I'm wouldn't be surprised if there would be more applications in a similar situation. > Another question (sorry for getting slightly off-topic): Does anyone > remember why we reverted the strict library inter-dependencies for the > libav* packages? Was it because of libavcodec-extra, or because of some > arch:all package, or because of bin-nmus? I don't remember. Now that both flavors are built from the same source package in both Debian and Ubuntu, I think we can tighten also the internal shlib dependencies. Thanks for pointing this out. Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caj0cceakjdufo5yfghiocev+4+zupaghvueh2sr8jhw23sh...@mail.gmail.com
