Hi, Jean-Yves Avenard: > We have attempted for many years to get our changes merged in FFmpeg > but gave up. > It might be a good idea to restart this effort.
> To end this message: I fail to see how debian's decision on which > version of FFmpeg or LibAV would have any impact on MythTV, we use > neither Most forks cause additional work which, in the long term, is better spent elsewhere. The ffmpeg/libav split is ample proof of that; in an ideal world, you wouldn't need the mythtv fork either. Debian's position is that we _really_ want to avoid having multiple copies of essentially the same code in the archive; it's additional work for the security team (if they even know about the copies), needlessly eats memory when the two are in use simultaneously, and causes no end of trouble when a plug-in is linked against copy A while the main code (or another plugin) uses copy B (unless everybody is very careful WRT symbol versioning). -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140809070317.gl1...@smurf.noris.de
