upcoming ffmpeg transition

[Felipe Sateler]

On 1 November 2015 at 19:51, Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ffmpeg upstream removed some deprecated APIs, so the next release will require
> a transition. A large number of reverse dependencies need source code patches.
> Most of those are simple changes like renaming functions/macros, but some are
> more complex:
>
> building:           30
> simple changes:     61
> complex changes:    21
> ----------------------
> total:             112

How did you come up with those numbers? Did you actually make a patch for each??

>
> I'll file bug reports for the affected packages with:
> User: pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: ffmpeg2.9

Do the required changes work already? IOW, if a patch is applied can
it build with ffmpeg 2.8?

> Additionally, there are five unrelated FTBFS bugs among the affected packages:
> bino:      #802374
> gazebo:    #797809
> mrpt:      #803700
> ovito:     #803701
> pjproject: #793094
>
> It would be good if most of this was fixed, when the next ffmpeg
> version gets released.

I'd use severity: important. When the release gets done, then the
severity is bumped to serious.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler