On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote:


> No FFmpeg security update is “minor”.
>
> Almost each ffmpeg security bug is a code execution one. Almost each and
> every one of them is hard to backport.
>
> Those 10 security updates might represent more work than 100 *really*
> minor security updates.
>

How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security bugfixing,
in?

I'd rather have a library that fixes bugs than one that passes in order to
look "more secure". When in fact it's less.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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