[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][PATCH] web: News about FFmpeg in Debian

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Mon Oct 6 03:35:18 CEST 2014


Timothy Gu <timothygu99 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The bad news is that the package probably won't migrate to Debian
> testing in time for the upcoming release "Jessie". The Debian release
> and security teams have made this decision because of concerns of
> security and stability with interactions with other Debian packages.

I am mildly against this wording:
Iirc, the security team said that they consider FFmpeg slightly 
better in security issues but would still prefer avconv and I 
am not sure anybody from the release team ever commented.

Perhaps we should just omit the "bad news" paragraph.

Carl Eugen



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