Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries

To: Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>, 1086805@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
From: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:11:28 +0100
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Am 2025-03-13 11:58, schrieb Sebastian Ramacher:

Please don't. I don't think that we should support this use case in the
archive.


Hmkay.

The -extra meta package is there to help users to get the
-extra variants where they exist. But


Now it got interesting... ;)

 - Fabian

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- Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
  - From: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
- Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
  - From: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>
- Bug#1086805: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
  - From: Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>