[this was meant for d-release (damn autocompletion)] Moritz Muehlenhoff ha scritto: > A Mennucc wrote: >> Brief summary of bug: MPlayer contains an embedded copy of FFmpeg >> (indeed, they are developed by ~the same people); Aur=E9lien G=C9R=D4ME a= >> nd >> Moritz Muehlenhoff ask that the mplayer package be dynamically linked to >> the libraries in the Debian package ffmpeg; they consider this a RC bug.= >> >> Unfortunately, this cannot be currently done (mplayer does not compile >> with current ffmpeg package; and we are too late to update ffmpeg into >> Etch ; more details are in the above bug report). >> >> So we agreed to ignore that problem for the sake of the etch release > > Where did I agree until now?
sorry, I got confused in the English, that last "we" was meant to mean "me and Aurelien" (and not including you) anyway, shortly after I wrote that email, the situation reverted again (for worse); so currently there is no agreement between me and Aurelien, and I put that matter to d-ctte, in bug 402772 >> Please hint MPlayer into Etch. > > I've tried it myself and it is indeed not possible to link against > libavcodec dynamically currently. Given that mplayer was only accepted > into the archive 2.5 months after the current ffmpeg snapshot was made > and that mplayer is an important application I do now think we can > ignore this RC bug for Etch as a one-time exception. In any case further > mplayer maintenance needs to be synchronised with Debian's libav[codec| > format], even if it means to not being able to upload the most recent > upstream version every week. happy to know this. May you please forward this statement into bug 402772? (I would really appreciate). > Also, the static linking against libdv introduced in 1.0~rc1-4 should > be reverted. I did not mean to introduce any static linking; I will investigate a.
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