Hi Alessandro, On 29.04.2015 16:08, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > The decision has to be taken *now*, not in one year.
We should start discussing, sure, but I would be surprised if a decision could be reached in a time frame short enough to qualify as 'now'. > Last year, just before the freeze, we (the multimedia team) sort of held a > vote > to decide this, but it went in favour of libav. IIRC the reason people voted > in > favour of libav was that we were too close to the freeze to do anything. > > Now would be the time to start that discussion again. So, instead of wasting > energies arguing against the migration block, I suggest you be the one to > restart that discussion, given that you are the maintainer of ffmpeg. As I already wrote [1], I plan to start such a discussion. However I thought that meanwhile FFmpeg would be allowed into testing, as this seemed what Moritz suggested: Have both in testing for a year, while discussing further actions. Therefore I did not expect that this would be controversial. Best regards, Andreas 1: https://bugs.debian.org/763148#188 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
