FFmepg rebuild Schedule ?

[Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello]

2012/6/25 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com>:
> Hi,

>
>
> No they are not, if you are not or poorly informed on a topic please
> don't just don't reply rather then spreading non-sense / fud.

Agreed.

>
> If you look here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/log
>
> You can clearly see that the latest update of the libav git submodule is:
> "libav: Update to 0.8.3 release"
>
> So they are sticking purely to stable libav releases / API. Yes they are
> not supporting the latest ffmpeg stable release / API. This is their
> choice and they have every right to choose for libav.
>
> Note that in this case it is ffmpeg which is complicating things by making
> non parallel installable ABI breaking stable releases. If they would simply
> bump the soname of all the sub-libs of ffmpeg in one go, this problem
> would not be as big as it is.
>

I presupposed that they were working with an incompatible Libav
because FFmpeg's merge-all-changes-and-keep-compatible-with-libav
policy they had up to 0.10. Why FFmpeg is doing this now?

Thanks for the info and sorry for the noise.

Marcos