Bug#462899: ffmpeg: Removal of mpeg2 encoder also removes decoder, is this intentional?

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: ffmpeg
Version: 0.cvs20070307-6
Severity: normal

I was surprised when mpeg2video encoder was removed, but as it's a patent issue there's not much to be done.  My query today has to do with the mpeg2video decoder.  Is it also patented, or is its disappearance a side effect of removing the the encoder?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec1d             0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d            0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d              0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                    2.7-6           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6             2.3.5-1+b1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libimlib2                1.4.0-1         powerful image loading and renderi
ii  libsdl1.2debian          1.2.13-1        Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libswscale1d             0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg video scaling library

ffmpeg recommends no packages.

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