On 10/06/14 02:06, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Control: reassign -1 wnpp >> >> On Sb, 07 iun 14, 08:47:41, Rico Tzschichholz wrote: >>> Package: x265 >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> >>> Package name : x265 >>> URL : https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/Home >>> License : GPL2, BSD >>> Description : free library for encoding H265/HEVC video streams. > > This package is going to be maintained under the pkg-multimedia umbrella. > > Since this package is probably going to be similar to x264, I guess > it's easiest to track the github mirror of the upstream mercurial > repo.
+1 > It seems that there is no upstream mailing list, nor other way to > contact the upstream devs at this point. Luca, can you confirm or > correct this? I'm quite sure there is a mailing list. https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/x265-devel > I took a first look at the package, and it builds a shared library by > default (good). Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a proper SONAME: > > $ objdump -p libx265.so | grep SONAME > SONAME libx265.so > > This makes me wonder if it's worth building it as shared library in > debian as this point, or if we wouldn't be better of with a static > library only. I wonder what is upstream's take on this? Upstream should be notified, I'd advise to just provide the static library given the kind of usecase. lu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53965f41.7070...@gentoo.org