El 28/07/2014 07:40, "Jonathan Dowland" <j...@debian.org> escribió:
>
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 08:05:22PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > I think it would be best if ftp-master left the ffmpeg package in NEW
> > until an answer to this problem has been found.
>
> That would leave people who are eagerly awaiting ffmpeg(1) stranded in
limbo
> whilst the tangential library issue is fought over.

Agreed,
The (great) packaging effort Andreas has gone through allows us to have
both in experimental/unstable in order to let the users test it, and allow
the multimedia packages  maintainers make their mind about it.

With this package in we can also see how many bugs come in and how prompt
are Andreas and the FFmpeg developers (that have shown great interest in
this work) to resolve Debian bugs. And then with all that real data, decide
what we want to ship.

As described in Andreas thorough mail, there are only 2 packages that can't
use both (and iirc they currently FTBFS as upstream uses FFmpeg) and 5
packages that could need a transition, so the release team can just pop an
RC bug on ffmpeg until all is sorted out to ensure it doesn't get into
testing.

I believe we should get ffmpeg out of new asap in order to be able to have
some real data by freeze time.

Cheers,
-- 
Niv Sardi

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