Bug#402772: bug 402772: downgrade mplayer bug 395252 (for including mplayer in etch)
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:02:55PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> lets come to today
> today, the ffmpeg inside Debian is 6 months older then the one in
> MPlayer; for that reason , DynLEF fails . When I tried it,
> I also tried 'make -k' , to see if there were few failures that I could
> fix; but the number of errors is too much .
Right, this is indeed a solid reason for not insisting on use of the
packaged ffmpeg lib on such short notice, as long as the security team is
willing to support the current situation.
> > Now it's probably not reasonable to require shared linking for mplayer as a
> > release-critical requirement, especially when there are known problems with
> > that approach
> ffmpeg is developed inside MPlayer ; for that reason, they (correctly)
> feel free to improve it in any way they like. This is clearly stated in
> the web pages of ffmpeg: no stable api, sorry.
I don't see anything correct about this, frankly. I think these comprise
abysmal maintenance practices on the part of upstream, and if it were my
decision *personally*, I would likely judge mplayer/ffmpeg too immature to
be included in a stable release until they did settle on a stable API.
Cheers,
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