Charles Plessy writes (Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to
Debian):
Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
Based purely on security evaluations by others that I was able to find on
the web, FFmpeg appears to be better at the moment than libav
Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
Given the amount of software in Debian and thus the amount of security
fixes necessary for a stable release, I think that the additional
stable-security uploads for FFmpeg in the order of 10 per release will
be hardly noticeable.
They are surely noticeable to the
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On 2014-07-29 03:20, Marco d'Itri wrote:
if they are not drop in replacements, and it would also be a
pain if
higher up packages link-in both ffmpeg libav and some
clashing symbols are present...
This is why the new ffmpeg will use different
Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
According to the changelog[1], there have been 8 security updates for
ffmpeg in squeeze.
There would have been more but the code has evolved too much for it to be
feasible to backport the patches. Not to mention that some bugs that are being
fixed are, for example,
Hi Dimitri,
On 29.07.2014 03:12, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
I don't have an opinion about ffmpeg vs libav, apart from how hard the
soname transitions are, especially in ubuntu where we somehow ended up
with ex-multimedia packages around that either never were in debian,
or have been long
Hi Raphael,
On 29.07.2014 09:47, Raphael Geissert wrote:
Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
According to the changelog[1], there have been 8 security updates for
ffmpeg in squeeze.
There would have been more
You're right, my calculation is slightly flawed.
but the code has evolved too much for it
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't have an opinion about ffmpeg vs libav, apart from how hard the
soname transitions are, especially in ubuntu where we somehow ended up
with ex-multimedia packages around that either never were
On Tuesday 29 July 2014 18:43:17 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
On 29.07.2014 09:47, Raphael Geissert wrote:
Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
According to the changelog[1], there have been 8 security updates for
ffmpeg in squeeze.
There would have been more
You're right, my calculation is
On 29.07.2014 21:59, Raphael Geissert wrote:
On Tuesday 29 July 2014 18:43:17 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
On 29.07.2014 09:47, Raphael Geissert wrote:
Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
According to the changelog[1], there have been 8 security updates for
ffmpeg in squeeze.
There would have been more
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:39:29 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
Hi Reinhard,
On 28.07.2014 02:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote:
* Does it make sense for me to switch my package?
The rule of thumb
Ciao,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote:
The release team is likely to let the people involved in multimedia foo
fight it out among themselves and pick a winner. We're not going to
ship both and hand that mess over to the security team.
Personally I
On Jul 28, Alessio Treglia ales...@debian.org wrote:
Personally I don't feel like dropping libav in favor of ffmpeg now at
this stage. It's too late for Jessie.
Except that, for a lot of the depending packages, there would be an
immediate benefit in the number of bugs fixed.
Personally I feel
Hi Julien,
On 28.07.2014 10:44, Julien Cristau wrote:
It remains to be seen, what the release team prefers: frustrated users and
developers or both forks in jessie.
The release team is likely to let the people involved in multimedia foo
fight it out among themselves and pick a winner.
I am
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personally i would welcome if both libav and ffmpeg could co-exist
within Debian¹.
as i see it, libav and ffmpeg have diverged, and as such i would like
to have the choice which one to use.
On 2014-07-28 11:55, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jul 28,
On 28.07.2014 13:24, Alessio Treglia wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
umlae...@debian.org wrote:
Except that, for a lot of the depending packages, there would be an
immediate benefit in the number of bugs fixed.
at least in theory.
Plus I would
On 28.07.2014 13:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Norbert Preining wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is more
than uncomfortable with having more than one copy of libavcodec in
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:05:46PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
On 28.07.2014 13:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Norbert Preining wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is more
than
On 28 July 2014 15:05, Andreas Cadhalpun
andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 28.07.2014 13:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Norbert Preining wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
In [1], Moritz from the security team clearly stated that he is
Hi Reinhard,
On 28.07.2014 02:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote:
* Does it make sense for me to switch my package?
The rule of thumb is, if your upstream uses FFmpeg for development
you probably want
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