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Tasklist

FS#57791 - [ffmpeg2.8] Drop package

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 11 March 2018, 18:37 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 12 March 2018, 00:36 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since vlc 3 is ported to ffmpeg 3, this compatibility package is no longer needed.

Please remove ffmpeg2.8 from the official repositories.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 12 March 2018, 00:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  See  FS#57773 
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Sunday, 11 March 2018, 18:41 GMT
IT was removed, but we readded because it was massive PITA.
It will be there for 1-2 month, it created a pain because of strict soname dependencies giving no sane upgrade flow. This is duo to lack of basic functionallity in pacman itself. After that period we will remove it.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 11 March 2018, 19:38 GMT
I feel like a better solution is to use less versioned deps in favor of assuming the user does not do partial upgrades...
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Sunday, 11 March 2018, 19:46 GMT
soname deps are great, they protect from half synced mirrors, which can theoretically happen any time during a larger move. dropping them it not the solution to a lacking feature

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