On 29.04.2015 20:47, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:33:07PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >>> 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" > > Honestly at this point I don't believe we'll need a year to sort out whether > it'll be libav or ffmpeg. > > I'll refrain from mentioning my personal preference for now, but IMO > one of the two is preferable in almost all aspects, so picking the lib for > stretch shouldn't take that long.
OK, then I'll try start that discussion on pkg-multimedia soon. But I'll have to take care of something else first. Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
