Bug#618968: Do not use ffmpeg in netgen

[Francesco Poli]

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:34:51 +0100 Anton Gladky wrote:

> 2012/11/28 Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org>:
> > Well, it's a single file with a single copyright holder: I don't know,
> > maybe Aaron Holtzman may be contacted and persuaded to re-license the
> > file under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2.1 ...
> 
> It seems, the file libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c is obsolete and dropped by
> upstream. It does not persist in a newer versions of the libav [1].
[...]
> 
> I think, there is no need to contact the copyright-holder of the removed file.

OK, then it seems that this bug will be fixed, once the new version of
libav has entered Debian and netgen links with it (and works properly).

In the meanwhile, maybe the Debian release managers are willing to
grant a wheezy-ignore tag for this issue. I don't know, but it is
probably worth asking...

[...]
> 
> [1] http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=tree;f=libavcodec;h=37cebf818ae6eb404c14ccb294fd262852ec14ae;hb=HEAD



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