On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:02:55PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > lets come to today
> today, the ffmpeg inside Debian is 6 months older then the one in > MPlayer; for that reason , DynLEF fails . When I tried it, > I also tried 'make -k' , to see if there were few failures that I could > fix; but the number of errors is too much . Right, this is indeed a solid reason for not insisting on use of the packaged ffmpeg lib on such short notice, as long as the security team is willing to support the current situation. > > Now it's probably not reasonable to require shared linking for mplayer as a > > release-critical requirement, especially when there are known problems with > > that approach > ffmpeg is developed inside MPlayer ; for that reason, they (correctly) > feel free to improve it in any way they like. This is clearly stated in > the web pages of ffmpeg: no stable api, sorry. I don't see anything correct about this, frankly. I think these comprise abysmal maintenance practices on the part of upstream, and if it were my decision *personally*, I would likely judge mplayer/ffmpeg too immature to be included in a stable release until they did settle on a stable API. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
