Re: Heads up: ffmpeg transition (SONAME Change!)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Reinhard Tartler [Tue, 20 May 2008 11:57:39 +0200]:

> Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> writes:

> > 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.

> The new ffmpeg package now has entered unstable and did build on all
> architectures successfully. Please rebuild your packages against this
> new version of ffmpeg at your earliest convenience.

Er, is there a reason you're proposing this, instead of the release team
scheduling binNMUs?

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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