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

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le jeudi 31 juillet 2014 à 22:19 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit :
> How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security
> bugfixing, in?

> I'd rather have a library that fixes bugs than one that passes in
> order to look "more secure". When in fact it's less.

I have no informed opinion on whether ffmpeg or libav is better. On the
security front, it looks indeed like ffmpeg is doing better but it is
still hearsay.

What I know, though, is that it is not realistic to maintain two such
libraries in the course of a stable release.

Said otherwise: if we have a consensus that ffmpeg is better, then let’s
do the switch NOW. Not after the freeze.

If it’s too late, libav will be the sole implementation in jessie, and
the switch will have to be done for jessie+1.

Cheers,
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