Dear fellow debian developers. Currently debian/testing ships a very old copy of ffmpeg, dated from 0.cvs20070307. We, the ffmpeg maintainers (Fabian Greffrath and myself) do not consider that version of ffmpeg acceptable for release in debian lenny. Many newer applications of ffmpeg (like mplayer) require a newer ffmpeg to build, others (like xine) are waiting for debian to update the ffmpeg package. We have therefore worked very hard in debian/experimental to prepare and test a good ffmpeg package, which we hereby asking for testing. If you maintain a package build depending or using ffmpeg, please install the new ffmpeg package from experimental and rebuild your package against it. Please report any issues you find at your earliest convenience. The new ffmpeg package changes sonames, so all reverse dependencies have to be rebuild. I did an rebuild of all reverse dependencies with the upstream snapshot in question, but this is already some time ago and in the meantime, we did work on the packaging and patches on the ffmpeg package. However, I do not expect serious issues with the new package. If there are no serious objections, I plan to upload ffmpeg mid to end of next week. If the release team asks me to upload sooner, no problem. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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