Hi, 2014-08-27 0:47 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> there was a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about >> reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1]. The security team made clear [2] >> that they will only support one provider of the libav* libraries. So >> either libav or FFmpeg could go in the release and the other library has >> to stay in experimental (or unstable with a RC bug). The maintainer of >> libav is the Debian Multimedia team and therefore it is up to us to >> decide whether we want libav or FFmpeg in Debian 8 (jessie). >> >> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg? > > Libav, see my previous emails that I posted on this mailing list on > this topic for rationale. > >> Can we reach a consensus on this topic? > > So far I don't see disagreement on this within our team. Wearing my XBMC maintainer hat I would vote for FFmpeg, thus there is no consensus.
I would like to see FFmpeg at least in experimental to make an informed judgement and let us _and others_ compare the libraries. Cheers, Balint PS: I'm following the thread on debian-devel. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
