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

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2014-10-06 01:35 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 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.

  I am against that wording too. The problem with Timothy's
wording is it contains way to much interpretation! My wording
only had "unfortunately" and "bad" because FFmpeg will very
likely not be part of the next Debian release; which I think
is fair enough. The *important* part in my version is that I
encourage people to read the discussion and directly give them
a means to do so by providing a link the relevant bug on the
Debian bug tracker.

TL;DR  I really think it is important people read the original
discussion at Debian and build up their own opinions about what
was said and done.

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

  I am obviously against that.

  I have locally changed all other things requested by Timothy
and Carl Eugen. I do not think the Libav deprecation message
should be part of this news article. Probably putting it in the
FAQ/other place on the homepage or writing another news article
would be helpful. Though I am not volunteering for that ATM.

  I will wait another day or two. So if you do have objections
voice them soon please.

Thank you all for the feedback so far,
  Alexander
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