Bug#896893: transition: ffmpeg

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi Lisandro,

On 18/07/18 14:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> El miércoles, 18 de julio de 2018 07:15:29 -03 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 
> escribió:
> [snip]
>>> Fixed upstream, patches forwarded upstream or patches in the BTS:
> [snip]
>>> #888366 [src:qtwebengine-opensource-src] qtwebengine-opensource-src: FTBFS
>>> with FFmpeg 4.0 #888371
> 
> As noted in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888366#43 in 
> order to fix this we need a transition to have the bug fixed.
> Removing qtwebengine from testing to let ffmpeg transition before starting 
> with the Qt transition is a non go, as it would break many user's setups, like 
> oauth authentication for KMail, just to give one example.
> 
> So I'm afraid I see no way around this except tangling the transitions.

Any reason the new ffmpeg libs can't migrate to testing while keeping the old
libs there? That should allow ffmpeg to migrate now, and the Qt transition can
be done afterwards with a fix for qtwebengine.

Also your link has an offer to backport the fix, for which I didn't see a reply
(so I don't know if that can't be done because it's way too intrusive to backport).

Cheers,
Emilio