FFE: ffmpeg 0.5
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ffmpeg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ffmpeg-debian (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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ffmpeg-debian (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
* A description of the proposed changes, with sufficient detail to estimate their potential impact on the distribution
Currently, jaunty ships a snapshot of ffmpeg dated from 20090204. This update would bring us to the latest release of ffmpeg. In fact, this updates the snapshot to ~20090303.
* A rationale for the exception, explaining the benefit of the change
gst-ffmpeg already includes that release, having the two in sync lowers the risk of causing crashers caused by a version skew
* Any additional information which would be helpful in considering the decision
debian/unstable already ships the 0.5 release in unstable. It is very likely that we can keep the ffmpeg packages in sync for a longer time, which results in more testing of the codebase and easier maintenance.
Testpackages and rebuilds of reverse dependencies can be found in siretart's PPA (for intrepid only ATM, sorry). So far, no regressions have been spotted.
original report follows:
Binary package hint: ffmpeg
ffmpeg releases quite rarely, though they aim to keep a stable source trunk. Ubuntu uses an svn snapshot from february 4th.
ffmpeg released version .5 today with significant stabilizations. Complete announcement http://
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in ffmpeg: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
Changed in ffmpeg-debian (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
The current package in jaunty is pretty recent, but I could easily update it to 0.5 in jaunty as well. Since we are in FeatureFreeze this requires a freeze exception as outlined at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/FreezeExcep tionProcess
For you convenience, I've attached the upstream diff to this bug.