Re: Updating F-20 to ffmpeg-2.2.10

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