Bug#729203: Packaging for FFmpeg avoiding conflicts with libav
- To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
- Cc: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 729203@bugs.debian.org, Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>, Jackson Doak <noskcaj@ubuntu.com>, team@security.debian.org, Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#729203: Packaging for FFmpeg avoiding conflicts with libav
- From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:56:36 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20140223215636.GA3103@pisco.westfalen.local>
- Reply-to: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>, 729203@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20140223104834.GA11041@bunk.dyndns.info>
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:48:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:53:18AM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> >...
> > > But should they decide that it will not be possible to support both
> > > packages for security updates, your argumentation would clearly
> > > favor ffmpeg over libav, probably leading to the removal of libav
> > > from the archive.
> >
> > I don't think that's the case. We've looked into many security issues
> > in ffmpeg which didn't affect libav, either because experimental
> > code wasn't merged yet or because code was rewritten in libav and not
> > affected.
>
> A significant factor is that libav provides a subset of FFmpeg,
> and breaks existing APIs frequently.
I don't have the time nor the interest to discuss this at length, so
EOD from my side.
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