FFmpeg package in Debian/Ubuntu

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi,

Am 13.10.2011 23:17, schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos:
> Is this purely what you expect from Michael, or did you find anything in his
> mail that made you believe it was written in a biased way?
> (I ask because I was impressed how unbiased he wrote the message - I wouldn't
> have been able to after what has happened.)

you are right, his mail was written in a remarkably neutral tone. 
However, I have been told that the reasons for the fork were mostly 
personal ones and especially dissatisfaction with his project 
leadership. So, yes, I guessed about his sentiment for the fork. ;)

> (I am assuming you did not mean "work".)

s/work/fork/

> This is of course true - the reason for the failed takeover and subsequent fork
> was a personal vendetta against the main contributor and maintainer of FFmpeg -
> but the presented reasons were predominantly technical ones.
> And while for me, the non-technical reasons are much more important than
> security issues, bug fixes and features, I would have expected that here
> technical reasons would outweigh the non-technical ones.

Well, at this point the discussion reaches far beyond my level of 
involvement in both projects. I am just a contributor to the *Debian 
packaging* of the software and do not care that much if the libraries 
originate from the ffmpeg or the libav project.

  - Fabian