On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:55:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:24:14PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: > >Le Friday 18 July 2008 12:05:29 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit : > >> >Excellent! thank you very much. I'll test tomorrow with these. Any > >> >chance you can get them into backports.org? Your personal apt repo is > >> >fine for my personal use and for pre-debconf testing, but I think the > >> >debconf server admins want them in bpo if we are to use them for dc8. > >> Sorry - won't do that extra work: > >> * Either a few helper tools needs to be backported (like I've done > >> at http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/src ) or packages needs to be > >> adjusted to use older versions of those helper tools (and tested > >> that it does not cause regressions!) > >> * Backported icecast2 links against backportet libshout. I believe > >> bpo does not allow linking against anything but Etch libraries > > > >You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull with > >the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated, and > >cannot be simulated beforehand... > > ...which means you don't really know what you've got: Imagine > backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and > then update the ffmpeg backport. Is "binNMUs" then done automagically? > > Yes, the problem is similar to main Debian (all packages are built > against unstable, not rebuilt when entering testing), but bpo has less > eyeballs, I suspect. > > Oh - and I suspect my example with ffmpeg is a quite valid one: Some > cases of undefined img_convert occur at runtime (try install freej in > Lenny and then update libav* to the ones from debian-multimedia.org ).
I wouldn't wish ffmpeg compilation hell on anyone and certainly am not asking you to go through it for debconf-video's sake. I've never tried building .debs of ffmpeg or dependent apps, but just trying to build ffmpeg2theora for local installation (and trying to find the appropriate + buildable ffmpeg snapshot) has left me quite angry in the past. -Eric Rz. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
