I have without luck tried to reach upstreamvia direct email, and my probe to see if anyone is responding to the huge amount of open issues on github, <URL:https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/issues/760 > has not received any replies in a week. The Openhub project indicators on <URL: https://www.openhub.net/p/ffmpeg-python > also have some worrying observations.
Because of this, and after reading the code to see what purpose it serve in Whisper, simply to start ffmpeg and pass its stdout content as a byte stream to the rest of Whisper, I suspect the best approach is to patch Whisper to no longer depend on ffmpeg-python and instead call ffmpeg directly. Introducing ffmpeg-python into Debian without an operational upstream project seem a bit too risky for me. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen