Bug#692193: ffmpeg: description claims that ffmpeg is a transitional package, but it isn't

[Reinhard Tartler]

tags 692193 wontfix
severity 692193 minor
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On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:

> Package: ffmpeg
> Version: 6:0.8.4-1
> Severity: normal
>
> The ffmpeg description is:
>
> Description: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
> (transitional package)
>
> which is incorrect because the package provides the ffmpeg program
> (and its man page). Removing a transitional package should be
> completely safe, but here doing this breaks other software on the
> machine (e.g. the DownloadHelper Firefox extension, which knows
> about ffmpeg, but not avconv). Please use another word in the
> package description such as "obsolete".
>


The ffmpeg binary as distributed currently in unstable has not received
attention by our upstream, libav, since early 2011.  It is provided only to
support software that has not been ported yet to avconv.

Please do file bugs against packages that do not with avconv. Those bugs
will become RC as soon as the libav 9, which is currently in experimental,
reaches unstable. This will happen shortly after wheezy release.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard
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