Libav11 for Utopic

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 12:16:50 UTC 2014


Hi,

I'm wondering what people think about having Libav11 in Ubuntu. In
debian, this transition as coordinated in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757917

This time, Libav11 is source-code compatible to Libav10. While the
SONAMEs did change, packages just need to be recompiled and do not
require additional patching. Given that we just transitioned to
Libav10, I expect this to be rather painless in Ubuntu. I did a mass
recompilation in Debian, and it worked out pretty well.

I realize that Feature Freeze is just around the corner, so time is
running out. I would therefore appreciate a quick decision on this.

Thanks a lot for considering.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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