Bug#1128084: ffmpeg: Enable whisper support using whisper.cpp?

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:10:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.multimedia
Message-ID	<178688220608.2845312.3776546029475562768__11988.2958055072$1786882404$gmane$org@cairon.jones.dk>

Hi Sebastian,

Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2026-08-16 13:40:26)
> On 2026-04-26 18:17:33 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > > Not at the moment. whisper.cpp and its (build-)dependencies are not
> > > in testing and looking at their current state they are not ready to
> > > be promoted to key packages.
> > 
> > whisper.cpp migrated to testing 2 weeks ago.
> > 
> > Please reconsider enabling support for it here.
> 
> It does not look like whipser.cpp and its (transitive) dependencies are
> ready to become key packages:
> 
>  Marked for autoremoval on 05 September due to aardvark-dns, golang-github-bmizerany-assert, golang-github-masterminds-sprig, httpcore, jupyter-notebook, node-playwright, node-yarnpkg, towncrier, wasmedge: #1133663, #1135849, #1138720, #1141793, #1143319, #1143321, #1143428, #1143887, #1143916, #1143952

I don't think looking at "risk of problems if no action for more than a
month" is sensible. I suspect ffmpeg would not fit that bar - but as I
understand it we may never know that, because autoremovals are computed
only for non-key packages.

Put another way: What do ffmpeg maintainers consider the threshold for
acceptance, if neither "has stayed in testing for 2 week" nor "has
stayed testing for 4 months"?

 - Jonas

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