Finally ffmpeg version 0.svn20080206-9 was uploaded to unstable and is currently waiting to get out of NEW . Special thanks go out to Fabian Greffrath, for testing, reviewing and pushing me, to Lïoc Minier, for his thoughts on the package renaming and handling of potential unstripped replacement packages and Darren Salt for his work on the debian/rules file. This upload is targeted lenny. Highlights of that upload include:

• introduction of ffmpeg-doc 438369
• build flavors (read more below)
• renaming of the source package to ffmpeg-debian
• DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt now compiles the package with -O0 (and works!)
• ffmpeg-config has been removed. please port your packages to use pkg-config instead, cf. 487917 and 487922.

As for the build flavors: The debian/rules file was refactored so that flavors can easily be added. The flavors are architecture specific. All architectures support a static and a dynamic flavor. The following architectures support the following flavors:

• i386: cmov (an i686 optimized flavor using the cmov instruction)
• powerpc: altivec (requires G4 or better)
• sparc: vis (uses v9 instructions)

If you are interested how we manage these build flavors, have a look at our debian/rules file. I remember that this was recently discussed on debian-devel at some point.

Anyway, if you need/want additional flavors, please file wishlist bugs.

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