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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:30:30
Message-Id: 20160829103013.7fdbfbf4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1 by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200
2 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > See <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591722> for context.
5 >
6 > chromium-54 is currently hard masked; it'd soon enter ~arch, and then
7 > stable in ~6 weeks. ffmpeg-3.0.1 is currently hard masked.
8 >
9 > These are the options I see for how to proceed. Feel free to share
10 > further alternatives.
11 >
12 > A. Prepare to unmask and eventually stabilize ffmpeg-3.0.1
13
14 Don't use 3.0. Go for 3.1.x.
15
16 Except that, it's ideal, but revdeps need to be fixed somehow first.
17 Help is actually deeply needed to push forward this agenda.
18
19 Good news is that Toralf already ran the tinderbox on both ~arch and
20 stable. Bad news is that there are a lot of failures. Some are not
21 simple to fix.
22
23
24 > B. Backport just the changes needed for chromium to older ffmpeg
25
26 I doubt that is sanely possible.
27
28
29 > C. Mask chromium's system-ffmpeg flag when the dependency on
30 > ffmpeg-3.0.1 can't be satisfied
31
32 It's a bad idea I think.
33
34
35 > D. Patch chromium not to require newer ffmpeg
36
37 Maybe the simplest temporary solution, it is equivalent to B. except we
38 don't change every other consumer of the lib.
39
40 In the end, I think if A. can't be sanely achieved, D. is the only
41 option.
42
43
44 Any clue on what chromium requires from 3.x+ ?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx2c4@g.o>