On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

If that is indeed all this is, then it does seem like a no-brainer...

-- 
Rich

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