Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-14 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:13:34PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) > > Hi > > On 2016-05-02 20:46:37, Brian May wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > > > There's also an alternate way to go forward... continue to support > > > the current version with p

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-13 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
(Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Hi On 2016-05-02 20:46:37, Brian May wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > There's also an alternate way to go forward... continue to support > > the current version with paid external help if needed. > > Starting to look like it will be a better approach.

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 03 May 2016, Brian May wrote: > I have a suspicion that many of these installs may be due libav being > installed to satisfy dependancies. There are a large number of packages > that do depend on libav. Yes, that's obvious, a library is usually installed by way of dependencies. But if you

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-03 Thread Brian May
Raphael Hertzog writes: > We have 15% of the sponsors listing at least one of the binary packages > built by libav in their package list. That's relatively close to Xen > (17.4%) where we are going to spend money for external help. That said > none of the customers expressed their reliance on thi

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 02 May 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > have you asked the libav maintainers for support / feedback? They might > not be able to do the work, but I could imagine they would help with > hints and reviews or such… FYI https://lists.debian.org/2015205942.ga14...@ramacher.at https://list

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, have you asked the libav maintainers for support / feedback? They might not be able to do the work, but I could imagine they would help with hints and reviews or such… -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-02 Thread Brian May
Raphael Hertzog writes: > There's also an alternate way to go forward... continue to support > the current version with paid external help if needed. Starting to look like it will be a better approach. Have been attempting to compile random dependancies manually, and so far only one of them has

Supporting libav in wheezy

2016-05-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Brian May wrote: > > 2. Spend some time on investigating what it takes to backport > > libav from jessie to wheezy. 11.x is still supported by > > Looks like the SONAME has changed. Presumably this means anything > depending on libav will need to be rebuilt? There's a