Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

[Raphael Geissert]

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 slightly flawed.

That was my point, so please don't use it as an argument.

> > Not to mention that some bugs that are being
> > fixed are, for example, for incomplete checks - checks that don't exist
> > in the 0.5 branch.
> 
> What do you mean here? If the affected code is not there, then that's
> nice, because a backport is not needed.

Let me rephrase it: the fix is for an incomplete check, but in 0.5 the check 
is missing - while the rest of the code is there. Which is kinda... worse.

Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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