Re: libx264 update for F16?

2012/10/22 Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt;: > On Seg, 2012-10-22 at 09:00 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: >> 2012/10/15 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt;: >> > What's the chance of getting x264 updated in F16? The current version >> > (116) is too old for MythTV 0.26 and I'd like to keep the same version >> > across all releases. I only need >=118 but the same version as is >> > available in EL-6 would be great. >> >> What is the need of newer ABI ? is it because of ffmpeg built within >> mythtv ? or mythtv code that dropped older x264 API ? > > Hi, x264 don't have a new ABI , just a soname bump , which will leads to > dependency problems with yum No you are wrong. Unless the upstream developers miss understand how things work, a version change in a SONAME is the consequence of an ABI breaks by the removal of any symbol. If you don't have any ABI changes but a SONAME change, then the developer is wrong and you could fix the SONAME and packages using a given library will still run.

> On EL-6 we have x264 updated as in F-17 and if we have it on EL-6 why > not on F16 ? Because we were still in updates-testing repository and the EL-6 branch in RPM Fusion was in development. So the development behaviour was relevant. Nicolas (kwizart)