Comment 24 for bug 93849

Mantas Kriaučiūnas <email address hidden> writes:

> Hi Reinhard,
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 07:00:43AM -0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Mantas Kriaučiūnas <email address hidden> writes:
>> > Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> already created ffmpeg deb
>> > packages with AMRNB and AMRWB format support, I found packages for
>> > Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) at Medibuntu-maintainers package archive
>>
>> the problem with that approach is that it creates a hard dependency on
>> the libamr packages, which are totally unredistributable and cannot
>> possibly included into ubuntu proper.
>
> Are you soru, that ffmpeg packages created by <email address hidden> creates
> hard dependancy? According to the changelog, these ffmpeg packages adds
> libamr support via dlopen(), this is runtime libamr detection, so, no hard
> dependancies on the libamr packages. I can paste changelog from patched
> ffmpeg packages for Ubuntu 8.10 again:
>
> ffmpeg (3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3+unstripped5+amr1) intrepid; urgency=low
> * debian/patches/60_dlopen_libamr.diff: add libamr support via dlopen().
> (LP: #93849)
> * debian/patches/series: add the above patch.
> * debian/confflags: pass --enable-libamrnbbin and --enable-libamrwbbin.
> -- Lionel Le Folgoc < <email address hidden>> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:54:09

that is news to me. we could probably integrate this in the
ffmpeg-debian package.

could you (or Lionel) please extract that patch and file it against the
ffmpeg-debian package in debian? I'll review it and see if we can
integrate it.

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4