[Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:55:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:24:14PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> >Le Friday 18 July 2008 12:05:29 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
> >> >Excellent! thank you very much. I'll test tomorrow with these. Any
> >> >chance you can get them into backports.org? Your personal apt repo is
> >> >fine for my personal use and for pre-debconf testing, but I think the
> >> >debconf server admins want them in bpo if we are to use them for dc8.
> >> Sorry - won't do that extra work:
> >>    * Either a few helper tools needs to be backported (like I've done
> >>      at http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/src ) or packages needs to be
> >>      adjusted to use older versions of those helper tools (and tested
> >>      that it does not cause regressions!)
> >>    * Backported icecast2 links against backportet libshout.  I believe
> >>      bpo does not allow linking against anything but Etch libraries
> >
> >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?
> 
> 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 ).

I wouldn't wish ffmpeg compilation hell on anyone and certainly am not
asking you to go through it for debconf-video's sake. I've never tried
building .debs of ffmpeg or dependent apps, but just trying to build
ffmpeg2theora for local installation (and trying to find the appropriate
+ buildable ffmpeg snapshot) has left me quite angry in the past.

-Eric Rz.



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