From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: graphics/ffmpeg: update to 8.0
To: ports@openbsd.org, andrey0bolkonsky@gmail.com, tobhe@openbsd.org,  thfr@openbsd.org, uaa@openbsd.org, rsadowski@openbsd.org, pascal@stumpf.co,  espie@openbsd.org, landry@openbsd.org, kn@openbsd.org, kirby@openbsd.org,  jeremy@openbsd.org, brad@comstyle.com, noiseless-ak@yandex.ru
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:12:34 +0200

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.