Bug#803846: opal: FTBFS with FFmpeg 2.9

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 9 20:05:50 UTC 2015


On 09.11.2015 20:54, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> On 09/11/15 20:36, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 09.11.2015 11:55, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>>> Thank you for the patch.  We hope to upload a new release of opal in
>>> 2 months (very very approximately), which includes most if not all of
>>> your changes, so I prefer to wait a bit.
>>
>> Hmm, this is vaguer than I prefer.
>> And the Debian package is already several upstream version behind,
>> so why wait another two months?
> 
> This is because ekiga is not yet ready to use newer version of ptlib and opal.
> ptlib/opal often breaks API with each release, is not well tested on linux
> platforms, and ekiga has not kept up with the changes.

I see.

>> Also, please make sure that all of this is actually fixed upstream,
>> as that doesn't appear to be the case.
> 
> I made a fast check, and I found one chunck of your patch not to be inside,
> and about 4 chuncks inside.  So in short I wrote "most if not all your changes".
> I will do a full check upon uploading, anyway.

OK.

Best regards,
Andreas



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