Your message dated Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:45:19 +0200 with message-id <aJz5X967ImMG_svB@ramacher.at> and subject line Re: Bug#1086805: tagging 1086805, closing 1086805 has caused the Debian Bug report #1086805, regarding ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 1086805: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086805 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: ffmpeg: please provide versionless libav* that pull the latest versioned binaries
- From: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:53:06 +0200
- Message-id: <173088678687.1022332.2806633551616278076.reportbug@p8h61.lan>
Package: ffmpeg Version: 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi ffmpeg aleady ships generic libav*-extra packages that depend on the latest versions. It would be desirable to also ship non-extra versions of these. Thanks! Martin-Éric -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-26-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on: ii libavcodec-extra59 [libavcodec59] 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libavdevice59 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libavfilter8 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libavformat-extra59 [libavformat59] 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libavutil57 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u8 ii libpostproc56 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.26.5+dfsg-1 ii libswresample4 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ii libswscale6 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 ffmpeg recommends no packages. Versions of packages ffmpeg suggests: pn ffmpeg-doc <none> -- no debconf information
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- To: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi, 1086805-done@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>
- Subject: Re: Bug#1086805: tagging 1086805, closing 1086805
- From: Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:45:19 +0200
- Message-id: <aJz5X967ImMG_svB@ramacher.at>
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On 2025-08-13 09:45:02 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > ke 13.8.2025 klo 9.42 Fabian Greffrath (fabian@greffrath.com) kirjoitti: > > > > Am 2025-08-13 07:17, schrieb Martin-Éric Racine: > > > This bus was marked as wontfix and closed without any explanation. > > > > Sebastian provided some rationale here: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086805#35 > > That's not an explanation. That's a cop-out. Take it or leave it. Version-less binary packages create more problems than they solve (if they solve any at all). There is a good reason we have a whole section in the Debian policy on managing shared libaries. I am closing this bug again. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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