Re: FFmpeg-8.0 Warning
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel |
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On 9/23/2025 11:31 AM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote: > On 9/22/25 3:54 PM, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via > blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote: >> On 9/20/25 9:02 PM, Zeckma ([email protected] via blfs-dev >> Mailing List) wrote: >>> FFmpeg-8.0 is ABI incompatible with 7.1. BLFS in the development books >>> has updated to FFmpeg-8.0. Several packages do not yet support >>> FFmpeg-8.0. >>> <snip> >> I would like to propose to everyone the idea of reverting back to >> ffmpeg-7.1 until at least Firefox is fixed. >> <snip> > I am not convinced that we should roll back a package in the > *development* book. > > We already say on virtually every page: "Development versions of BLFS > may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies > have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books." > > It is good that the editors know about the problem, but we need the > newer version installed on development systems to test when dependent > packages are updated. Not that my voice matters, but I agree 100% with Bruce. In fact, I was going post almost the same exact thing. There's a reason you call it the *development* book. Especially this early in the development cycle (a production version of the book was just released earlier this month) should be plenty of time for dependencies to catch up. -- Randy -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-dev Unsubscribe: See the above information page