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Drop old ffmpegs #22372

Closed grahamc closed 5 years ago

grahamc commented 7 years ago

ffmpeg 1.x and 0.x aren't maintained anymore.

Things depending on 1.x:

accousticFingerprinter
baresip
freerdpStable

Things depending on 0.10:

spotify
ultrastardx
gst_ffmpeg*

peterhoeg commented 7 years ago

freerdpStable can be dropped - it's so bugridden that it's practically unusable.

gst_ffmpeg is part of legacy gstreamer which is still in use by quite a few packages.

grahamc commented 7 years ago

Yeah, this ticket is more aspirational than anything else. Maybe in a year someone will say "(triage) no activity in a year, closing" and then I can say "but... but..." and then maybe I'll be able to drop at least 1.x. :P (hi, future contributor.)

FRidh commented 7 years ago

ffmpeg isn't mentioned in the deb file of Spotify as a requirement, so I guess we don't need it either. I just 'rebuild' Spotify without and it seems to be working just fine.

retrry commented 7 years ago

I looked at Spotify package in AUR[1] and it seems that ffmpeg is used for playing local files.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify/

cpages commented 7 years ago

@FRidh it is used for local playback. I did a quick test to see if it runs with the default ffmpeg version, but it doesn't. So I guess there's not much we can do for now :/

FRidh commented 7 years ago

ah, local playback wasn't part of my test :)

tomberek commented 5 years ago

(triage) no activity in a year, closing @grahamc

infinisil commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50220