On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:28:14 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Sure, but we're talking about a major version here, and a web browser > where future security updates need to be deployed quickly. You don't > want to be stuck figuring out what other ffmpeg API calls were touched > in the new version while there is some exploit floating around. > > It seems like bundling is the simpler solution here, unless the > necessary patches are trivial. If they're in fact trivial somebody > can probably just post one and save a lot of speculation. :)
It depends on the complexity of the patch indeed. We're talking about 3 enum values that were added in ffmpeg-3 here.