ffmpeg status?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Loïc Minier schrieb:
>  Interesting!  If upstream and ftpmasters have expressed the wish to not
>  use the name "ffmpeg" for the source, I don't mind bowing to their
>  preferences.

I have to admit that I don't know exactly about ftp-master's opinion. 
I can only guess from the fact that in the past two things were done 
simultaneously in agreement with them: The stripping of the tarball 
and its renaming to ffmpeg-free, and I strongly believe this was due 
to a discussion with ftp-masters on a conference.

However, this was before I joined the ffmpeg Debian maintainers. A 
short summary of the story can be found in README.Debian...

>  Using the source package name "ffmpeg" for non-free is a very appealing
>  use case for using a different name for the one going to main, I agree.
>  Fortunately, non-free "isn't debian", so the discussion on the suffix
>  holds true :)

Well, true. Non-free is not Debian and having a packages called 
'ffmpeg' in non-free and 'ffmpeg-$suffix' in Debian main sounds a 
little stupid to me. :/