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How to upgrade to aom 3.7.0

Asked by David Karlin

Apoloigies for my newbie-ness in not understanding how to deal with this:

I'm running Ubuntu 23.04 in a single image Docker container, and I want to use avifenc (and therefore aom). I'm currently using a simple command "apt-get install -y libavif-bin ", but that gets me v3.6.0 of aom. Unfortunately, this contains a bug which is stopping me proceeding (see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/aomedia/issues/detail?id=3495#c10).

The bug was fixed in aom v3.7.0, so it would be great if I could persuade someone in the team to include aom v3.7.0 in the main Ubuntu 23:04 repository.

Can someone advise on how I make this happen? Should I submit a bug report here? Or if not, what other steps are available to me, such as how to use the package in https://packages.debian.org/trixie/libaom-dev - doing apt-add-repository fails security.

(NOTE: I can build avifenc with aom v3.7.0 from source, but this is accident-prone (for example, it fails if I build on a Mac with Apple Silicon)).

Thanks

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Ubuntu's strategy for fixing bugs in already-published releases is not upgrading to a higher version, but patching the version that is in Ubuntu.

I suggest that you create a bug report describing the error (preferably with a link to the issue), and the developers will decide on how to correct the problem.

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aom version 3.7.0 has just been packages for Debian https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/aom
So there are good chances that Ubuntu 24.04 will have that version (or higher).

There is Bug #2004442 related to moving the Ubuntu package from universe to main.

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