Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian
Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security
> bugfixing, in?
It's not.
However, what was proposed was having *both* of them, not dropping libav
in favor of FFmpeg.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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