Updating F-20 to ffmpeg-2.2.10 (was: ffmpeg-2.4 released)

[Sérgio Basto]

On Dom, 2014-11-02 at 08:02 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: 
> W dniu 15.10.2014 o 07:42, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> > W dniu 15.10.2014 o 00:38, Sérgio Basto pisze:
> >> Hi, 
> >>
> >> On Ter, 2014-10-07 at 08:02 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: 
> >>>>
> >>> Please be advised that 2.3 was recently removed from the maintained
> >>> branches list:
> >>>
> >>> https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2014-September/162904.html
> >>>
> >>> Thus, if we ever rebase F-20, we should use 2.2 and not 2.3.
> >>
> >> The mode I like to work and to coordinate the mass rebuild for a stable
> >> branch (F-20), is first be test in devel . We have packages in devel, we
> >> test it for some time and when we can say that are stable , so we could
> >> *copy* to F-20 , another point was: mass rebuild was for ffmpeg/x264 ,
> >> not only ffmpeg .
> >> So it is important have .specs for packages that compile in all Fedora
> >> releases. Having 2 trees, one for F20, other for devel , is just
> >> justified when is a very core package like udev or systemd  ... , but
> >> for rpmfusion the point is other, maintainers are not aware ... 
> >> So *theoretically* my solution was build ffmpeg 2.2 in devel, test it
> >> and copy to F-20 , but devel already have 2.3 so is not practical . 
> >>
> >> Moving forward, just update "ffmpeg" on F20 seems to me acceptable ,
> >> like you wrote "only libavfilter has a soname bump (snip) This means
> >> that we really only need to rebuild dvdstyler, mpv and xbmc." but we
> >> miss the test phase, we need guarantee that ffmpeg version was tested ,
> >> any suggestion ?
> > 
> > ffmpeg-2.2 was in devel between March and August. Moreover, the reason
> > why upstream picked it over 2.3 was that it is used by more downstream
> > distros: OpenSUSE, SUSE Enterprise and ROSA [1]. If we let it sit in
> > -testing for a bit longer than usual, I believe this will be enough.
> > 
> >>
> >> Saying that and giving up mass rebuild ffmpeg/x264 for F-20, no need
> >> preserve devel as is and we can do the mass rebuild for ffmpeg 2.4 on
> >> devel , anything pending ?
> > 
> > I don't think anything has changed since last time: dvbcut and
> > kmediafactory fail to rebuild, vlc needs a patch, everything else builds
> > fine. David Timms was working on making dvbcut work, but I have not
> > heard from him regarding whether he was successful.
> > 
> >>
> >> BTW what packages (.spec) do you have ? that are different from stable
> >> branches to devel ?
> > 
> > Only ffmpeg and mplayer. ffmpeg due to its numerous dependencies, and
> > mplayer because it is highly dependent on ffmpeg.
> > 
> >>
> >> Thanks and best regards,
> >>
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > [1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams
> > 
> Where do we stand on this?

I don't change must what I wrote :
"Update ffmpeg on F20 seems to me acceptable ,like you wrote "only
libavfilter has a soname bump ... This means that we really only need to
rebuild dvdstyler, mpv and xbmc."

I think you should decide and we need authorization from kwizart . 

you don't want rebuild others deps right ?  


cheers 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.