Picking up an old thread from October, On Do, Okt 15, 2009 at 21:28:03 (CEST), Loïc Minier wrote:
> Perhaps we should just go for a) and have a ffmpeg in experimental for > Debian next. Not too handy for Ubuntu though, but we could have a PPA > there. Now that we have ffmpeg with symbol versioning in unstable, I think we can now finally start working on this. I propose to start a new branch 'master.snapshot' and upload it to experimental with a version number of e.g. ffmpeg_0.6~~svn20100123-1 or something. However, I expect it to be stuck in new, probably for a very long time, just like the mplayer package. I don't think this is a problem, because we can still publish the package on alioth or somewhere. >> Still, how often do we want to update such a snapshot package? and >> who is volunteering to keep it up to date? > > I think how often as we like / see fit. Sometimes gcc-snapshot > doesn't get updated for a while, but when testing of an upstream fix > is desired, a new one is just pushed for testing. Thinking further on that, I agree that regular updates in experimental are not really necessary. Instead I'm imaginging a cronjob that runs in a svn checkout with the debian/ directory for experimental mounted in it and uploads updated snapshots to a PPA for ubuntu. Manual uploads to experimental would only be necessary if packaging changes like soname bumps or similar occur in svn. Since I don't see major drawbacks in this approach, I think I'll work on such a package next and probably discuss this with the ffmpeg folks at FOSDEM. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
