Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On 10 August 2014 18:53, Andrew Kelley wrote: > IMO it's not worth the effort to support multiple versions of the same > library. If you want to use an old library, use an old version of the > software. In our case, we have very long release cycles. Usually only once a year at best. We have users

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi On 10 August 2014 17:01, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > > IMHO it's reasonable to expect core APIs to be upwards-compatible and keep > deprecated interfaces around for another release or two. > Then it becomes unreasonable for a piece of software to be compatible with multiple version of t

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On 9 August 2014 17:03, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Most forks cause additional work which, in the long term, is better spent > elsewhere. The ffmpeg/libav split is ample proof of that; in an ideal > world, you wouldn't need the mythtv fork either. > > Debian's position is that we _really_ want to

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-08 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi. Only going to reply to some of the misinformation provided in the post from Reinhard Tartler (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00160.html) For the background: I am the de-facto maintainer of the MythTV's FFmpeg fork. > To the best of my knowledge, there are only two high-pro

Bug#549626: ITP: libvdpau -- Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix. This library provides free wrapper of the Video Decode and presentation API.

2009-10-04 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jean-Yves Avenard" * Package name: libvdpau Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Aaron Plattner * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau * License : Nvidia free Programming Lang: C D

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi 2009/3/15 Raphael Hertzog > > Everybody has stuff to learn but your mail made it clear that you had a > lot to learn yet about libraries and automatic dependencies: Thanks for letting me know. It would have been even better if you had provided an answer that actually help resolving my prob

Re: Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
2009/3/14 Adeodato Simó > Hello, Jean-Yves. > > Please mail your questions about packaging to > debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. > > -- > - Are you sure we're good? > - Always. >-- Rory and Lorelai > > I'm not sure I like to classify as "newbie"

Forcing version on dependency, how?

2009-03-14 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi. I'm trying to build a package so it depends on a specific version of a library. I carefully read http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html but didn't get the answer I was looking for. In my debian/control file I have for a given package: Depends: ${misc-depends} Which will instal