ffmpeg status?

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

>> I don't think we are doing our users a service by providing a crippled
>> ffmpeg package in main called 'ffmpeg'. I think having the source
>> package reflecting the fact that it is not as upstream released it is
>> only honest.
>
> Allright. Moreover I (AFAICT upstream, too) am happy with any other
> package name than 'ffmpeg-free'. ;)

Yes, I've spoken to Diego about this (CC'ed), and he even suggested the
name ffmpeg-restricted. Therefore I'd like to rename the source package
again on the next upload.

Everyone okay? (now would be a good time to object ;)

> I had another idea over the weekend: Given that there are quite some
> dependencies between the libraries -dev packages in ffmpeg, how do you
> like the idea of a single 'ffmpeg-dev' package that contains all headers
> and static libraries?

Diego, what do you think about this?

FWIW, I don't see what problem is solved with that regrouping. however
now would be a good time to do such a change.

> How can we process in getting rid of ffmpeg-config?

By using grep-dctrl to find all ffmpeg using packages in debian and
'grep' to detect if they are using ffmpeg-config. Then bugs need to be
filed against packages to stop using that.


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