Re: [Debconf-video] [Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:25:21AM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:27:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 16:55 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > >> * Backported icecast2 links against backportet libshout. I believe
> > > >> bpo does not allow linking against anything but Etch libraries
> > > >You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull with
> > > >the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated, and
> > > >cannot be simulated beforehand...
> > > ...which means you don't really know what you've got: Imagine
> > > backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and
> > > then update the ffmpeg backport. Is "binNMUs" then done automagically?
> > <snip>
> > No. I did backport ffmpeg and ffmpeg2theora to sarge previously, though
> > I hven't done so for etch. I can have a go at that.
>
> Ben, did you mean backporting to get it into bpo? Jonas has already
> provided backports at his own site which we will probably move to our
> own private dc8 repo. I'm testing with them now. So, if you don't have
> the time to make them official, we'll most likely be ok for dc8.
>
> Though it would of course be nice if others could benefit, if you have
> the time. Plus, it would make Ganneff happier.
Forgot to ask, the dvswitch 0.7.1 etch packages you provided are using
libavcodec0d from etch. Jonas' provided packages give us a backported
libavcodec51. Would there be any benefit to having dvswitch packages for
etch built with that?
-Eric Rz.
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