Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
On 2025-03-13 11:09:11 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 2025-03-11 15:46, schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> > Welcome. Has there been any progress on this?
>
> Nope, but I'd volunteer to work on this.
>
> What name scheme do you suggest for the packages, libav*-nonextra or
> libav*-regular or anything else?
Please don't. I don't think that we should support this use case in the
archive. If a package supports dlopening multiple versions of libav
libraries, then that can and should be expressed in their Depends to
make it clear which version that they support. On a different note, the
dependencies of the spotify package are unnecessarily complex since none
of the -extra variants are needed to be listed there.
The -extra meta package is there to help users to get the
-extra variants where they exist. But
Cheers
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Sebastian Ramacher
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