Hi Sebastian, On 01.06.2015 17:29, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2015-06-01 16:59:13, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> If you tell me where and how, I can put my arguments on a wiki page. > > I've created [1]. [2] and [3] can be used to list arguments for libav > respectively ffmpeg. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/libav-provider > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/libav-provider/libav > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/libav-provider/ffmpeg
I'll try to fill the ffmpeg page at: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg >>> Will ffmpeg build the LGPL and GPL variants as libav did or are all reverse >>> dependencies suddenly compatible with the GPL variant? >> >> Currently Libav only builds GPL-2+ and with libavcodec-extra* GPL-3+ >> libraries. > > Ah yes, got that mixed up. > >> Since the only additional functionality of the extra variant is limited >> to an AMR encoder [3]. Thus I don't think this justifies the additional >> complexity of the extra variant. > > But it'd be a regression. Is there any data on how many people use that > encoder? I don't have any data beyond the popularity contest [4]: libavcodec56 49010 libavcodec-extra-56 1628 That's about 3%, though I doubt that all who have libavcodec-extra-56 installed actually need it. (I used to install it because the named implied it might be useful.) Best regards, Andreas 4: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libav _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
