[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#581507: ffmpeg-0.6

[Jonathan Nieder]

# for lack of a more specific bug
block 581507 by 569727
tags 581507 - help
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Hi Giuseppe,

Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:

> html5 works with the ffmpeg experimental version

Oh!  (Indeed, this seems to be true.)

> as far as I know
> ffmpeg maintainers will move ffmpeg0.6 to unstable after squeeze release.

Updating bug metadata accordingly.

> I'm trying to understand if chromium can be maintained in a stable
> release (squeeze), and indeed, given the bad security history[1] of
> ffmpeg, we can ship chromium linked against its internal ffmpeg copy.

That would be a bad idea IMHO.  But a separate ffmpeg-chromium package
might be okay if the bundled copy turns out to be better maintained.

Jonathan