Update ffmpeg in F24 to 3.1.x ?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 12.10.2016 o 16:15, Kevin Kofler pisze:
> 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),

Could you please point me to a reference for this? I looked around a bit
but couldn't find one. Thanks!

 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.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
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