ffmpeg status?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hello Reinhard,

in the context of our phone call, I've just digges up these mails from 
June 17th:

Fabian Greffrath schrieb:
> Both of you give convincing arguments.
> 
> Anyway, however we deicide, the source name should be as neutral as 
> possible [1] and only describe, *what* we did to the source and not 
> *why* we did it (since this would imply that there is something wrong 
> with the original source).
> 
> I propose ffmpeg-stripped.
> 
> [1] Reinhard: Im Sinne von "wertneutral", literal "worth-neutral", 
> maybe translated as "not-judging"...

> Loïc Minier schrieb:
>> >    But since you are both arguing in favor of renaming the source, I
>> >  prefer a stable name overtime reflecting that we changed ffmpeg for
>> >  Debian and only that; ffmpeg-debian sounds like such a name.  :) 
> 
> I've been initially arguing (and this is long ago) against a renamed 
> source package but for a source called ffmpeg and a suffix to the 
> version number to reflect the Debian-specific manipulation to the 
> source - just as you proposed it.
> 
> I am still in favour of this alternative but I thought this would be 
> impossible (1) because of upstream and ftp-master concerns to call it 
> plain 'ffmpeg' and (2) because of the chance to upload an unstripped 
> ffmpeg to non-free which would need another source name anyway.

Cheers,
Fabian

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