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

[Timothy Gu]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net> wrote:
> Try to shortly summarize where we are now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net>
> ---
>
>     This is all RFC as marked in the subject. Please give me some
>   feed back!
>
>     It would also be nice if someone could test the patch, I do not
>   have the tools at hand ATM.
>
>  src/index | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> index 8d3f541..afc276b 100644
> --- a/src/index
> +++ b/src/index
> @@ -36,6 +36,22 @@
>      News
>    </h1>
>

> +  <a id="ffmpeg_entered_sid"></a><h3>October 6, 2014, FFmpeg is in Debian unstable again</h3>

I would use ffmpeg_back_in_sid or ffmpeg_back_in_debian.

> +  <p>
> +    We wanted you to know there are
> +    <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ffmpeg&searchon=sourcenames&suite=unstable&section=main">

> +    FFmpeg packages in Debian unstable</a> again. <b>A big thank you
> +    to all the people that made it possible.</b>

Please use the HTML5-friendly <strong> instead of <b>.

Also +1 for Carl's suggestion for pointing out Andreas' name as he has
done a huge lot to get FFmpeg in.

> +    It has been anything but simple.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>

> +    Unfortunately that was already the easy part of this news. The bad news is the packages probably won't
> +    migrate to Debian testing in time for the upcoming realease.

release

I would say something like this:

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.

> +    <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763148">Read the argumentation over at Debian.</a>
> +  </p>
> +  <p>

> +    <b>However things will come out in the end, we hope for your continued remarkable support!</b>

Ditto <strong>

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Timothy