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

[Sven Joachim]

Am 13.01.2012 um 15:43 schrieb 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?

Besides the already mentioned youtube-dl, the attached script shows
k9copy, kdenlive and winff as possible offenders in unstable, you
probably want to have a look at their source code.  Checking squeeze
as well would also be good, I didn't do that.

Cheers,
       Sven

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