[OE-core] [PATCH 4/5] libav: upgrade to 9.18

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 28 May 2015 at 11:18, Kang Kai <Kai.Kang at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 2015年05月28日 15:14, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>>
>> On 28 May 2015 at 04:26, Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Upgrade libav from version 9.16 to 9.18. Remove unused var INC_PR and
>>> backport patch to fix CVE-2014-9676.
>>
>> I'm sorry I didn't ask this in the original discussion but... Is there
>> a good reason for keeping 9.x in oe-core if we're bringing in 11.x
>> (instead of either dropping 9.x or moving it to meta-oe)?
>>
>> I haven't found the API changes between 9 and 11 to be so large that
>> they would warrant keeping two versions. Admittedly I'm not working
>> with libav on daily basis so I might have missed things.
>
>
> The original thought is just in case someone may want libav 9. According to
> release log, series 11
> is
>
> "Libav 11 is API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major
> release."

For full disclosure, libav 10 is not API-compatible with 9: the
differences aren't big but will certainly require changes in some
applications. Still, I haven't seen anything that would necessitate
keeping two versions.

 - Jussi

> So it is ok for us to use libav 11 as default. libav 9 recipe could be
> removed if no one opposes.