Re: Inconsistency between resolved issues/patches and source files.

[William]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:21:33 -0700
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2024-03-21, William wrote:
> > A few days ago I tried reencoding several video files I have laying
> > around to save storage, using libsvtav1 through ffmpeg, and then to
> > my surprise (and frustration) I realized that ffmpeg distributed by
> > GNU/Guix does not include such encoding library.
> >
> > I checked the issue tracker and found out issues that indeed
> > commented on this library missing, strangely enough, an issue with
> > a patch was marked as solved on 16 February 2024[0], over a month
> > ago, however when I check the source files I notice that the patch
> > that includes a flag to enable this library is still not present on
> > the latest build of ffmpeg yet[1].  
> 
> It appears to be applied in core-updates as
> 9400188b2b57cea2f3efc998a2f3b24769db04b7, but not yet merged into the
> master branch. This is probably because it would trigger too many
> rebuilds...
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant

Hello.

Could someone explain exactly what the "core-updates" branch is?

Can perhaps "core-updates" be added as an extra channel on Guix
manually?

And how long usually it takes for these patches to make its way from
"core-updates" to master?

Thanks in advance.