On Sat Sep 20, 2025 at 12:55:44PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> IMO it is worth committing diffs to preemptively fix ports with
> newer FFmpeg before the update, as long as they don't break with
> the old version - I only skimmed the diff but it looked like
> these are generally safe from a quick look.
> 
> (also if there is a choice between fixing by adding a patch, and
> fixing by updating the relevant port, updating would generally be
> preferred)
> 

Yes, that worked really well last time. I would be in favour of
committing these changes only after building with -current and
then having a small diff to test it.