add epoch '3:' to ffmpeg-debian, was: Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> that would be indeed very nice, and I'd welcome it because it would make
> my life easier. I didn't dare to suggest this myself, so I'm happy that
> you think as well that this is a good idea :)

I did not say this is a good idea. A good idea would have been to use 
the Debian package for Ubuntu from the beginning and help improving it...

No, to be honest, I just saw that you have to add these epochs over 
and over again for the Ubuntu package and I believed you would like to 
get rid of this. ;)

> However it would be really useful if we could get rid of the delta
> altogether currently the only left difference is that we cannot
> build-depend on faad in ubuntu at all, because that library is not in
> main. I'd like to investigate if we can get around this somehow: I've
> seen ffmpeg is able to dlopen faad, so it does not need to depend on it.
> Let's see if we can somehow drop the build-dependency as well...

We should *not* only dlopen libfaad, we should depend on it. Else we 
will get hundrets of bug reports from users who installed the ffmpeg 
libraries and though are still not able to play their .aac files anymore.

I have read that the ffmpeg team is working on an internal LGPL'ed 
decoder in the scope of a GSOC project, but I cannot tell how far this 
approach has already come.


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