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

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:44:40AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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.

From my point of view, the following needs to be done:

    1) Drop ffmpeg-no-pkgconfig.patch
        Using the system libraries from ffmpeg together with the
        headers of a patched and more up2date ffmpeg-mt will always
        result in trouble.

    2) Link against the ffmpeg libraries, do not dlopen() them.
        This will make shlibs work against and makes it possible to
        binNMU chromium-browser in case of an ABI break in ffmpeg.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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