Re: [Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream
Le Friday 18 July 2008 16:55:43 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
> >You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull
> > with the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated,
> > and cannot be simulated beforehand...
>
> ...which means you don't really know what you've got: Imagine
> backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and
> then update the ffmpeg backport. Is "binNMUs" then done automagically?
No. binNMU for bpo would be a killer feature for sure.
> Yes, the problem is similar to main Debian (all packages are built
> against unstable, not rebuilt when entering testing), but bpo has less
> eyeballs, I suspect.
>
> Oh - and I suspect my example with ffmpeg is a quite valid one: Some
> cases of undefined img_convert occur at runtime (try install freej in
> Lenny and then update libav* to the ones from debian-multimedia.org ).
Well, ffmpeg is a bad example since the devels still refuse to understand the
meaning and goals of shared libraries and stable ABIs...
Romain
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