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



Le mercredi 30 juillet 2014 à 00:39 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit :
> I must have failed to make my point again. :(

No, you are the one who misunderstands the point.

> As far as I know there are hundreds of security updates (for all 
> packages together) in the lifetime of a stable release. Compared to that 
> 10 is not large. And, as I already mentioned, I think that some of the 
> FFmpeg updates are minor enough to go through stable-updates.

No FFmpeg security update is “minor”.

Almost each ffmpeg security bug is a code execution one. Almost each and
every one of them is hard to backport.

Those 10 security updates might represent more work than 100 *really*
minor security updates.

Cheers,
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