[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#580947: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

[Reinhard Tartler]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general as well.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:22:02 (CEST), Philipp Kern wrote:

> On 2010-05-11, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at debian.org> wrote:
>> [1] http://experimental.ftbfs.de/chromium-browser (unavailable at time
>>     of writing)
>
> experimental.ftbfs.de is down for good.  I guess you meant [0] or similar.
>
> Kind regards,
> Philipp Kern
>
> [0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=chromium-browser&suite=experimental

Indeed. Thaks for that link!

checking [2], reveals that I'm partly wrong. There is an in-source copy
of ffmpeg, that there is an option 'use_system_ffmpeg=1' passed to the
buildscript. This indicates that I indeed missed that upstream now
considers this. Still, I also note that a library
out/Release/obj.target/third_party/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a is being
built. also note the following changelog comment:

   * Ops, libavutil50 is not yet in Debian, removed from depends (Closes: #580769)                                                        
     - update debian/control                                                                                                              


I can only assume that the functionality to link and use the system
ffmpeg is severely broken. One more reason to have bug #580947 at
severity serious.

[2] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=chromium-browser&arch=i386&ver=5.0.375.29~r46008-3&stamp=1273408542&file=log&as=raw

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