[Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream

[Romain Beauxis]

Le Friday 18 July 2008 16:55:43 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
> >You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull
> > with the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated,
> > and cannot be simulated beforehand...
>
> ...which means you don't really know what you've got:  Imagine
> backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and
> then update the ffmpeg backport.  Is "binNMUs" then done automagically?

No. binNMU for bpo would be a killer feature for sure.

> Yes, the problem is similar to main Debian (all packages are built
> against unstable, not rebuilt when entering testing), but bpo has less
> eyeballs, I suspect.
>
> Oh - and I suspect my example with ffmpeg is a quite valid one:  Some
> cases of undefined img_convert occur at runtime (try install freej in
> Lenny and then update libav* to the ones from debian-multimedia.org ).

Well, ffmpeg is a bad example since the devels still refuse to understand the 
meaning and goals of shared libraries and stable ABIs...


Romain