Am 13.01.2012 um 15:43 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Fr, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:27 (CET), Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Package: libav-tools
>> Version: 4:0.8~beta2-1
>>
>> Renaming the programs from ff* to av* is breaking reverse
>> dependencies of ffmpeg that are using these binaries. At least
>> "youtube-dl --extract-audio" is affected by this because it looks for
>> ffprobe and fails. :-(
>>
>> Please check ffmpeg's reverse dependencies for invocations of ffprobe,
>> ffplay etc. and file bugs against them. In the meantime, providing
>> compatibility symlinks is probably a good idea, at least if the
>> commandline options of the programs are compatible.
>
> Oh, I wasn't aware that we have frontends that directly use ffserver and
> ffplay. I was only aware of front-ends for /usr/bin/ffmpeg, which is
> still provided.
>
> Do you have a list of packages that rely on
> /usr/bin/ff{play,server,probe}, so that we can file bugreports against
> them?
Besides the already mentioned youtube-dl, the attached script shows
k9copy, kdenlive and winff as possible offenders in unstable, you
probably want to have a look at their source code. Checking squeeze
as well would also be good, I didn't do that.
Cheers,
Sven
#!/bin/sh
DIST=unstable
TESTBED=$(mktemp -d testbed.XXXXXX)
aptitude download -t $DIST $(apt-cache rdepends ffmpeg | grep '^ ' | sort -u)
mkdir -p $TESTBED
for file in *deb; do
dpkg-deb -x $file $TESTBED
done
grep -r -E 'ff(probe|play|server)' $TESTBED/usr/bin
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