Re: Update ffmpeg in F24 to 3.1.x ?

Michael Cronenworth wrote: > This is not ideal. The ffmpeg 3.0.x branch is not going unmaintained > AFAIK. We can't push out a big rebuild of a major library so one, new > package can be introduced into F24. Huh? Upstream says 3.1 is API- and ABI-compatible to 3.0 (with only one application needed fixing for some reason), so it should be perfectly suitable as an update. This is similar to Qt upgrades that have often been done in Fedora (where there are also a few odd packages that invariably need rebuilding due to (ab)using private Qt APIs). Introducing a second package for the new version is a horrible idea, it will lead to symbol conflicts (in applications accidentally transitively linking both versions) and a waste of space. I would just upgrade the existing package to the new version.