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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