Re: Helping with Maintenance of Packages in Debian

On Mar 28, 2012 2:14 AM, "Christian Marillat" <marillat@???> wrote:
>
> Andres Mejia <amejia004@???> writes:
>
> > Hi Christian,
> > So I'll ask one more time and if the answer is no (or you don't
> > respond), I won't bother you anymore. For the packages in DMO that can
> > now be uploaded to Debian, will you be willing to help upload and
> > maintain those packages in Debian?
>
> I can upload ffmpeg in Debian ?
>
> Christian
>

Uploading ffmpeg would be a bad idea. Aside from the package name
conflicts, libav and ffmpeg are incompatible with each other. Trying to
keep them abi/api compatible would be a lot of work, more than what I have
time for at least. If you want to upload ffmpeg and still have them
compatible, feel free to submit your patches to libav/ffmpeg. Another
alternative is to have the libraries renamed, of which case you will still
need to submit patches upstream.

~ Andres