[packman] PMBS mass deletion

Bjørn Lie bjorn.lie at gmail.com
Wed May 13 21:04:09 CEST 2026



on., mai 13 2026 at kl. 20.07 +0200 +02:00:00 skrev Carsten Ziepke
> Wow, I "found" 86 deleted packages (not counting Leap 15 packages).
> 
> From the list of deleted packages I have faad2 installed.
> 
> I have a local mirror for packman, but excluded the source packages.
> 
> Does anybody know, if there was a difference between the obs and the
> packman version?
> 

There is no difference, faad2 is now "allowed" to build on opensuse. 
That said, 99 out of a 100 times, you will end up using ffmpeg aac 
decoder or fdk-aac decoder (via gstreamer or ffmpeg), so effectively 
faad2 is obsolete. Only "legacy/old apps" will explicitly call the 
faad2 decoder.

/Bjørn
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