Re: ffmpeg-9.0.1 against firefox and friends

Le Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Stuart Henderson a écrit :
> On 2026/08/19 12:35, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > So, we're waiting Tor Browser which may or may not be released in September?
> > 
> > Let me quote their blog:
> > 
> > > For the remainder of this release cycle, we will be focusing on auditing
> > > these issues and fixing bugs until the 16.0 alpha series is ready to
> > > become Tor Browser Stable 16.0. We are optimistically targeting a
> > > September release, which would put us one month ahead of schedule compared
> > > to last year.
> > 
> > Not sure that it is good idea, because we need some room to fix that is
> > fixed, special if release is targeted in October.
> > 
> > I plan to go in patches to bring support of ffmpeg-9.0 this week, continue
> > run my bulk and I think that the next week, if amd64 / arm64 bulks are ok
> > with that fixes, is good time to go ffmpeg-9.0.1 in.
> > 
> > At least it buys a few weeks to test and fix before the lock.
> 
> If we want FFmpeg 9.x for OpenBSD 8.0 (which is probably a good thing as
> far as 8.0-stable is concerned), it needs to go in soon. It's used by
> 100+ ports and we're not going to get good runtime testing across archs
> until some time after snapshot packages are available.
> 
> I think it's better to patch Tor Browser to work with it rather than
> wait for a new release at an unknown date.

yeah i've never said we should wait for tor browser to support it ootb,
rather to patch it by backporting
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2057577 :)

i also support ffmpeg 9 in the tree soonish to have some runtime
testing...