Updating F-20 to ffmpeg-2.2.10 (was: ffmpeg-2.4 released)

[Julian Sikorski]

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?

Best regards,
Julian