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Yeah you pretty much would only ever need to install these updates to
libavcodec
andimagemagick
for regulatory compliance reasons, or maybe if you wanted to be able to safely load video or image files found on the internet without being subject to compromise by widely-available exploits for vulnerabilities that were published and fixed upstream last year.