Bug#831591: ffmpeg: kodi crash

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Carl,

2016-09-06 12:41 GMT+02:00 Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>:
> Hi!
>
>> Knowing what broke could be
>> interesting for FFmpeg devs
>
> It would most likely be even more interesting
> for the Kodi developers: We currently assume
> that there is an unknown bug in Kodi...

Well, the first suspect is ffmpeg because updating ffmpeg
broke kodi while there were no planned ABI change.

>
>> > Slightly related: More that half of the open tickets
>> > concerning FFmpeg in Debian either contain no samples to
>> > reproduce or will not be fixed or were never reproducible.
>> > If another FFmpeg developer were interested in fixing
>> > bugs reported here it would be very difficult for him to
>> > find something useful due to the low snr.
>>
>> Those can be marked with the moreinfo tag and IMO it is
>> OK to close them after a reasonable amount of time if
>> the originator is asked to provide a test file but she/he
>> did not.
>
> Are five months enough?

Generally I use a few years if I'm not pretty sure the bug is gone.
I agree with the concept that bugs are part of the documentation
thus closing possibly valid bugs is decreasing the quality of the
documentation, thus the software.

Note that there are way more users of stable and a bug not
reproducible on unstable may show up in stable later.

I went throught the unclassified bugs and set the proper state
to help tracking them.

Cheers,
Balint