How to get ffmpeg v 7.1 or higher?

[Bret Busby]

On 25/9/25 01:39, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Hi,
> Am Donnerstag, dem 25.09.2025 um 01:04 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> I appear to have been confused by the numbers involved.
>>
>> Synaptic shows
>> Version: 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
>>
>> which I perceive as a subversion of version 7
> 
> This number is called an epoch in debian packaging terms ...
> 
> If during the lifetime of a package someone made a mistake in numbering
> or the upstream version handling changed massively, a package
> maintainer can introduce an epoch ...
> 
> dpkg/apt are only capable of moving forward and the package version is
> a critical bit for deciding what forward/backward means.
> 
> So if upstream changes its versioning schema or a packager made a
> mistake so that the version would actually go backwards, apt would
> simply not consider to update a package.
> 
> In such a case a maintainer can introduce an epoch to keep the version
> going forward, you can easily spot these by the colon in the version
> string and should ignore it when wanting read the actual version ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli

Hello.

Thank you for the clarification.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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