Re: ffmpeg issues

Jack Tanner <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:46:38 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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