Bug#528365: VLC has serious problems showing xvid and h264 videos

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Am 11.11.2009 11:10, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>> however I really don't feel like uploading to debian, because I was told
>> last saturday two weeks ago on the phone (the ftpmaster had an internal
>> meeting, and asked my opinion on the patent matters) that they are
>> currently considering removing ffmpeg completely and all related
>> packages from debian.
>
> During this phone call, did they also mention what they mean by "all
> related packages"? I mean, what is the future of faad, libmad, a52dec,
> libdca, twolame, etc. in Debian?!

no. the whole conversation was left rather vague.

The general strategy seems to be as long as they don't know about a
problem, it does not need to get fixed. As they are now aware, they need
to do something. And this "something" seems to be the most easy and most
safe thing to do.

now guess what that means for debian as a whole. I'm already preparing
myself for proposing a GR...

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4