Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> 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

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On 9 August 2014 19:25, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > I can understand that statically linking is easier from an upstream point of > view, but it has important disadvantages for a distribution such as Debian > and thus should be avoided if possible. > It is also the responsibility of a distribution t

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On 10 August 2014 13:38, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 06:26:19PM +0100, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > [...] > >> ... and was designed by a larger >> group instead of libswresample which was basically one person (and >> literally appeared in

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-12 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> Also ive offered my resignation in the past. > I do still offer to resign from the FFmpeg leader position, if it > resolves this split between FFmpeg and Libav and make everyone work > together again. I never understood why people who once where friends > became mutually so hostile The big eleph

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-23 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> but either way, id like to suggest again, we move forward and > rather discuss how we can improve the situation, do something about > the split and move toward un-doing it! We look forward to seeing you in Dublin then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s