Re: please let mplayer into testing
* Moritz Muehlenhoff (jmm@inutil.org) [061212 22:39]:
> A Mennucc wrote:
> > PS: actually, I personally do not agree to this bug being tagged
> > "serious". We all know that dynamical linking is the recommended way
> > to go (as stated in d-policy); but currently neither mplayer is apt to
> > this (dynamic linking breaks many features); nor is ffmpeg, that does
> > not have a stable documented API. And indeed most multimedia packages
> > ship an internal copy of ffmpeg; some of these packages can be linked
> > dynamically to the ffmpeg in Debian (e.g. libxine1) but some others
> > cannot (e.g. gst-ffmpeg). AFAIK, "dynamic linking to ffmpeg Debian
> > package" was never stated as a "release goal". So I really do not think
> > that bug 395252 should be "serious".
>
> It is serious, as it hampers Debian's ability to issue security updates
> in a timely manner.
JFTR, I agree with whatever the opinion of the security team is on that
- they'll be the ones who have to live with it anyways.
Cheers,
Andi
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