Update ffmpeg in F24 to 3.1.x ?

[Kevin Kofler]

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.

        Kevin Kofler