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Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian



On Jul 29, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org> wrote:

> security maintenance burden. Nonetheless, libav10 transition is still
> not complete in utopic today. I haven't checked, but now abi
> compatible/incompatible the two stacks are? cause it would be a pain
They really are not, this was explained in detail in the first message.

> if they are not drop in replacements, and it would also be a pain if
> higher up packages link-in both ffmpeg & libav and some clashing
> symbols are present...
This is why the new ffmpeg will use different symbols. Again, read the 
first message.

> and people start requesting to have build variants against both.
I don't think so. The harsh reality is that the only people who love 
libav are the libav maintainers, so I expect that once ffmpeg will be 
available most maintainers will just switch their packages to it.

> Has a rebuild of all deps been done? How many
Yes, the data was in the first message.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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