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

Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2026-08-16 14:56:31)
> Hi Jonas
> 
> On 2026-08-16 14:10:06 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, we do know and I have removed problematic dependencies from ffmpeg
> to get them out of the key packages set in the past.
> 
> > 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"?
> 
> As we (as in the release team) are trying to reduce the size of the
> key package set, I am not willingly adding new packages to that set that
> have RC bugs open and unanswered for 4 months.

Oh! I was unaware that this issue involves RC bugs ignored for 4 months
and agree that is a sensible bar to set. Which bugs is it?

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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