Bug#655683: libav-tools: should provide ff* compatibility symlinks

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fr, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:27 (CET), Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: libav-tools
> Version: 4:0.8~beta2-1
>
> Renaming the programs from ff* to av* is breaking reverse
> dependencies of ffmpeg that are using these binaries.  At least
> "youtube-dl --extract-audio" is affected by this because it looks for
> ffprobe and fails. :-(
>
> Please check ffmpeg's reverse dependencies for invocations of ffprobe,
> ffplay etc. and file bugs against them.  In the meantime, providing
> compatibility symlinks is probably a good idea, at least if the
> commandline options of the programs are compatible.

Oh, I wasn't aware that we have frontends that directly use ffserver and
ffplay. I was only aware of front-ends for /usr/bin/ffmpeg, which is
still provided.

Do you have a list of packages that rely on
/usr/bin/ff{play,server,probe}, so that we can file bugreports against
them?

Cheers,
Reinhard

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