Hello Andreas Cadhalpun. Thanks for your interest in this issue.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 09:35:16PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Control: severity 793641 important [...] I'd like to start out with questioning this.... gstreamer1.0-libav is completely unuable now, breaking very popular programs like totem. Severity should in my opinion be grave. [...] > The link [1] provided there is quite helpful. [...] > 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124987 It indeed is, and I'd like to point out comment #22: " For the record it is not a glibc bug. It is a defect in the loaded libraries, they should not require TLS. Fundamentally it's a defect that we allowed developers to build shared libraries with static TLS in the first place. " https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124987#c22 No matter if this is a bug in glibc or not, ffmpeg maintainers should take any 'temporary' measures at hand to ensure usability and not expect changes to be done on a whim to critical system components like glibc. This breakage has persisted way too long now. If there are no other option, maybe it's time to start planning transitioning back to libav until there's a better tested and working way to transition to ffmpeg? Speaking to #debian-multimedia there doesn't seem to be much interest in dealing with the breakage caused by the ffmpeg transition right now. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
