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List:       ubuntu-devel
Subject:    Intending to upload Libav 9 to raring
From:       bdrung () ubuntu ! com (Benjamin Drung)
Date:       2013-01-29 21:06:26
Message-ID: 1359493586.5427.16.camel () deep-thought
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Am Sonntag, den 13.01.2013, 12:12 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
> >> <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> Please upload into PPA, upload rdepends and wait for them to rebuild.
> >>> Find problems together with other interested people.
> >>
> >> Look, ma: https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/libav9-raring/+packages
> >>
> >> TODO list of affected packages is here:
> >> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/libav.html
> >>
> >> Help is more than welcome, espcially with filing bugs and creating
> >> patches. Anyone interested in helping out, please mail me so that I
> >> can add you to ~motumedia for upload access, until that happens,
> >> please upload to your own PPA and we can then copy your fixed packages
> >> over.
> >
> > Our friends at Gentoo now have integrated libav9 as well, and
> > experience similar problems:
> >
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=443230&hide_resolved=0
> >
> > When preparing bugs or patches it might make sense to look at those bugs.
> >
> > Status update: we are making good progress overall, but we really need
> > more people working on it. So please consider helping out!
> >
> 
> Another status update: it seems that progress hat pretty much stalled
> since a couple of weeks, which means that we are likely to miss this
> libav9 for raring. I would find this very disappointing, given the
> many great improvements that have been integrated into this release.
> 
> On the plus side, a fix for blender is currently being prepared in
> pkg-multimedia for debian/experimental:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/blender.git -
> thanks to Matteo F. Vescovi, who managed to get upstream have a closer
> look at this.
> 
> However, there are still many packages to fix left. Help on this
> project would be greatly appreciated!

Fixing Audacity is on my todo list. Audacity needs more work than
renaming function names to work with libav 9. Help porting will be
appreciated. Support for older FFmpeg/libav versions can be dropped
while porting to the newer API.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer



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