[packman] Packman is becoming like a leaky boat full of patches.

[Dave Plater]

On 06/18/2011 12:57 PM, Ismail Doenmez wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On 06/18/2011 12:33 PM, Dave Plater wrote:
>> Hi, I'm trying to find abi problems in mjpegtools and a source install
>> of it brings this into the fold, libswscale_oldabi0
>> What's it for?
>
> Seems to be due to new FFmpeg mess, libav bumped ABI in the upcoming release and FFmpeg people merged it but with one difference, they 
> also wanted to do a release with the old ABI, which explains the oldabi tag there.
>
> This is just another reason to switch to libav and be done, *sigh*
>
There's also an ffmpeg mess in videolan's repos to make my day even better. I'd better get away from this computer before the build service 
adds broken servers.
So libswscale_oldabi0 actually comes from the ffmpeg build?

Thanks
Dave P