x264 and ffmpeg updates coming to rawhide

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 04 December 2008 at 21:36, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 04.12.2008 21:15, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Thursday, 04 December 2008 at 14:17, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 
> >wrote:
> >>On Wednesday, 03 December 2008 at 19:06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 
> >>wrote:
> >>>In the long-standing tradition of breaking stuff right after a new 
> >>>release,
> >>>I'm going to update x264 and ffmpeg in the devel branch.
> >>>
> >>>x264 brings ABI and API changes (albeit minor). I haven't checked ffmpeg
> >>>yet, but there's certainly an ABI version bump in libavcodec and probably
> >>>some API changes as well.
> >>>
> >>>Right now x264 is blocked on some ppc compilation issue which I'm 
> >>>currently
> >>>trying to fix with the help of one x264 developer. I'll keep you posted.
> >>OK, x264 build succeeded. Could someone test it on ppc/ppc64?
> >ffmpeg build coming soon, too. It brings libavcodec ABI version bump and 
> >some
> >API changes.
> 
> Looking forward to all of that.
> 
> But are there any ideas/plans how to make the transition to all of that 
> new stuff as painlessly as possible for users and contributors?
> 
> just wondering: Shall I manually exclude those packages (and packages 
> that are build against it) from pushing until all the major things that 
> depend on x264 and ffmpeg got rebuild? E.g. gstreamer-ffmpeg, 
> xine-lib-extras-nonfree, mplayer and vlc?

Yes, that'd be nice. I'll be rebuilding the affected packages locally in mock
and reporting any problems (hopefully with fixes).

Regards,
R.

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