Hi Moritz, On 29.04.2015 20:22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > >> But having mysql-5.5 and mariadb-10.0 in jessie is apparently no >> problem, despite previous claims. What's the difference? > > To properly migrate over a daemon they need to co-exist for a stable > release, while a lib does not. Stretch will only have one of them.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining. >> How do you think this should go forward? > > When someone made a strawpoll amongst the multimedia maintainers > last year it boiled down to "libav for jessie, since it's now to late". > You should revisit that decision now that the release cycle has started. > (Beside pkg-multimedia-maintainers, this certainly also includes > maintainers like Balint which maintain relevant multimedia apps outside of > pkg-multimedia-maintainers.) > > If no convinging/clear majority can be reached, let the CTTE decide. That was my plan. > Having both for a year along each other will only waste people's time. Now > at the beginning of the release cycle is the time to make a decision, > not by dragging things into a year as of today. Picking one of the two > won't be any simpler in 12 months. I just fear that the decision making process will take long, especially if the TC has to get involved. (The libjpeg-turbo TC decision took 1 year.) Having ffmpeg in testing during this time would be nice, e.g. so that people using testing can easily compare them. Was that not what you meant with [1]: "It certainly possible to have them co-exist for a year or so" Best regards, Andreas 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763148#134 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
