[Devel-en] Last fallouts in Contrib from the ffmpeg 6 move

[Mikhail Novosyolov]

10.10.2023 21:12, Giovanni Mariani пишет:
> Hi all.
>
> By looking at the repoclosure results for Contrib I noticed some packages still failing since the move to ffmpeg 6 in the last August.
>
> After some research, this are the results:
> * 2mandvd:
> It won't build with ffmpeg 6. Some of the errors are easily fixed
> (constification of AVCodec, av_free_packet and av_register_all not declared) because other packages already did so, while for various other errros there is not an easy solution.
> The package is qt4-based and the last activity in its developer site was in 2013 (30/07).
> According to mib-repo only Rosa and and old PCLinuxOS have this package.
>
> * acoustid-fingerprinter:
> It won't build with ffmpeg 6. While near all the errors seems to be fixable by mimicking what other packages did, this error "‘AVStream’ {aka ‘struct AVStream’} has no member named ‘codec’" has not an easy solution.
> The last activity upstream was in 2017 (22/04).
> Only ROSA has this package: while mib-repo lists also Debian and Ubuntu, they dropped it from unstable.
>
> * qtcam:
> It won't build with ffmpeg 6 and while being actively updated (there is even an untagged release since 20/09/2023), until now the upstream devs don't seem interested in making it compatible with ffmpeg 6 (there are
> various issues about recent ffmpeg open, but without any visible progress).
> I have an initial patch solving the easy errors (more or less the same as in 2mandvd), but I have no clue about how finish it.
> According to mib-repo this is a Rosa-only package.
>
> My suggestion: drop all.
+1
>
> Then there is the case of ffmpeg2theora: this one builds against ffmpeg 6, but it needs its own -devel package to be installed: it now fails because there is no fmmpeg6-compatible previous ffmpeg2theora package.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> GvM
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