Demoting ffmpeg and rdepends to multiverse

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:17:44AM +0100, Sebastian Dr?ge wrote:
> On Do, 2005-11-03 at 01:08 -0800, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:00:32PM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > > I said rip out these *parts* off ffmpeg
> > 
> > What parts do you want to rip out, only the parts that prevent vlc from
> > compiling if you use proper lib{avformat,avcodec,postproc}-dev build-
> > depends or the questionably non-free portions or both? The first is
> > impossible due to libpostproc-dev being in multiverse; the second is
> > the impetus for Sebastian's e-mail.
> > 
> > > as i said, i have no idea how much of a role either of these provide for
> > > ffmpeg
> > > 
> > > if its essential then that sucks :( and i guess vlc will have to goto
> > > multiverse
> > 
> > It's the only solution, as either Sebastian or I can see, to resolve
> > both the license and build-dep issues.
> > 
> > > so, what is the reason its in multiverse?
> > 
> > I have no idea why libpostproc-dev is in multiverse as opposed to
> > universe.
> 
> But I know the reason. I tried to get ffmpeg (and all
> rdepends/build-rdepends) into multiverse maybe a month before breezy
> release. I got it out of main back then but I didn't get the time to
> move all rdepends/build-rdepends out of universe so most of the ffmpeg
> stuff stayed in universe, only libpostproc-dev went to multiverse as it
> had no rdepends

Right, I would like to know why its in multiverse tho :)

Trent

> 
> Bye



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