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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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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