On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:59:22PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Friday, 19 September 2008 at 09:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:34 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > [...] > > > Just to quote one such example: ffmpeg is a fast moving target, and > > > any project depending on the lib API is cutting a checkout, patching > > > it a up and using it for its own purposes. Replacing these internal > > > ffmpegs with a system ffmpeg is a nightmare or even impossible w/o > > > rewriting the app interface to it. Given that ffmpeg and friends fall > > > under the patent forbidden class we don't see that directly in Fedora, > > > but this issue is still out there. > > Well, ffmpeg is a special case wrt. many issues. If they were doing a > > proper job, they would release properly versioned packages with properly > > versioned APIs, which could be installed in parallel. > > They(we) don't have the manpower to do proper releases, but we do maintain > properly versioned API/ABI. The position of a release manager for FFmpeg > has been open for months. Many people complained, but nobody is willing > to do the legwork. Actually I did, you can read it up at the archives, but the ffmpeg devs didn't think this would be a good idea. The only positive comments were from other distribution packagers that would have even joined the release team taskforce, but w/o the developers' blessing (and at the very least a "do it now" assignment) there wasn't much we could do. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
