Bug#1004612: kodi: FTBFS with ffmpeg 5.0
Hi Vasyl
On 2022-04-09 13:54:58, Vasyl Gello wrote:
> P.S.
>
> I have several reports on Kodi forums about DVD playback issues requiring the patched FFMPEG for Kodi.
>
> I have an idea since the last year: what if I modify Kodi patchsets for libdvdread, libdvdnav and ffmpeg
> to use "#ifdef KODI_BUILD" guard and extend the respective d/control files with a new set if packages,
> like "libavformat58-kodi" ? Surely the build process of every package will produce two sets of binary
> packages (one set for Kodi and one set for other dependees), but the benefit of such approach is
> centralized maintainability as we don't have to apply same CVE fixes to multiple embedded copies
> of the same libdvdread, libdvdnav and ffmpeg releases.
>
> What do you think? If you have no principal "no-go", I can make the PoC and push it to my personal
> Salsa space for your review.
That's a no-go from me. If bugs need to be fixed in ffmpeg, please get
them integrated in upstream ffmpeg. I'm not interested in maintaing a
ffmpeg-for-kodi patchset in Debian.
Cheers
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