We used to have libav in main also because of KDE. What happened to kdemultimedia, do they also have been demoted to universe?
Besides, what are the implications of this demotion regarding updates and care by the ubuntu security team? Libav, as a codec library, is by nature a pretty sensitive piece of software that frequently receives point releases with security updates. Would demoting it make it more or less likely that such point release updates land in ubuntu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libav in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243235 Title: Please demote libav to universe Status in “alsa-plugins” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “libav” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “strigi” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: libav demotion: I would like libav to be demoted to universe in Trusty. It is a package that takes considerable resources to maintain security updates for, resulting in it being vulnerable in Debian and Ubuntu. Not only does anything in main currently depend on it, but having it in main results in split packaging (libav and libav-extras) which puts an extra burden on maintenance. It is currently being seeded in supported-desktop-extra. $ reverse-depends -c main src:libav No reverse dependencies found $ reverse-depends -b -c main src:libav Reverse-Build-Depends ===================== * alsa-plugins (for libavcodec-dev) * alsa-plugins (for libavutil-dev) * strigi (for libpostproc-dev) * strigi (for libswscale-dev) strigi: ------- I don't believe strigi actually needs libpostproc-dev and libswscale-dev. Here is the current build log with them: -- checking for module 'libavcodec' -- package 'libavcodec' not found -- checking for module 'libavformat' -- package 'libavformat' not found -- checking for module 'libavdevice' -- package 'libavdevice' not found -- checking for module 'libavutil' -- found libavutil, version 51.22.1 -- checking for module 'libswscale' -- found libswscale, version 2.1.0 -- checking for module 'libpostproc' -- found libpostproc, version 52.0.0 -- Could NOT find FFmpeg (missing: AVCODEC_LIBRARIES AVCODEC_INCLUDE_DIRS AVFORMAT_LIBRARIES AVFORMAT_INCLUDE_DIRS) ** FFmpeg not found. Support for indexing FFMPEG is disabled Here is the build log after they have been removed: -- checking for module 'libavcodec' -- package 'libavcodec' not found -- checking for module 'libavformat' -- package 'libavformat' not found -- checking for module 'libavdevice' -- package 'libavdevice' not found -- checking for module 'libavutil' -- package 'libavutil' not found -- checking for module 'libswscale' -- package 'libswscale' not found -- checking for module 'libpostproc' -- package 'libpostproc' not found -- Could NOT find FFmpeg (missing: FFMPEG_LIBRARIES FFMPEG_INCLUDE_DIRS AVCODEC_LIBRARIES AVCODEC_INCLUDE_DIRS AVFORMAT_LIBRARIES AVFORMAT_INCLUDE_DIRS AVUTIL_LIBRARIES AVUTIL_INCLUDE_DIRS SWSCALE_LIBRARIES SWSCALE_INCLUDE_DIRS) ** FFmpeg not found. Support for indexing FFMPEG is disabled alsa-plugins: ------------- alsa-plugins needs libavcodec-dev and libavutil-dev for the libasound2-plugins-extra package in universe. We have three options: 1- Stop building libasound2-plugins-extra $ reverse-depends -s libasound2-plugins-extra No reverse dependencies found 2- Leave libavcodec-dev and libavutil-dev in main (not ideal) 3- Add an alsa-plugins-extras source package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/1243235/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
