[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libopenjpeg wrapper for jpeg2k decoding / debian package

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:05:01PM +0530, Jai Menon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:43:29PM +0530, Jai Menon wrote:
> >>
> >> I personally don't use packages so if anyone disagrees, please comment.
> >
> > Sorry to be a bit blunt, but developing external library support without
> > using packages, i.e. different from the rest of the world and the people
> > that will use the external library support is, ummm, suboptimal to say it
> > mildly.  You need to test your stuff in the scenario it will be used.
> 
> I don't know what is the accepted definition of external library support is but
> I did try this using openjpeg source tarballs and doing a "stock" make install
> on windows and linux. I don't have the infrastructure to test it on 5 different
> distros. It works with the external libopenjpeg *library* and thats
> what the patch is for.

I do think that if packagers modify upstream sources (and that includes
changing the install location), this is something they have to deal
with first of all, and accommodating such changes from our side should
be considered bug workarounds (i.e. no need to explicitly test for and
only if it effects more than a handful of people, upstream (the
packager) has been notified and fixing it upstream is not possible or
just does not happen).