ffmpeg issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 26 July 2007 at 04:46, Jack Tanner wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik <at> rangers.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > The fishy thing is that faad2 has changed its license to something
> > we at livna think makes it non-distributable, so we stuck with the
> > last version before license change. But since freshrpms ships 2.5 and
> > people installing it kept running into weird problems with ffmpeg,
> > I've added explicit Requires: faad2 < 2.5 to prevent it.
> 
> Thank you for the cogent explanation! I'd thought that the license issue was
> resolved, as in http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482 , but I guess I
> was wrong.

Hm. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I wasn't aware of that discussion.
This means an updated faad2 package may yet see its way into livna. I'll look
into it after I get back from my vacation in two weeks.

> Best of luck with the freshrpms/livna integration effort. I'm sure it's a tonn
> of work.

Thanks! You're welcome to help, too. See http://rpmfusion.net/ for more details.

Regards,
R.

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