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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-11-03 13:09:43 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, not all software is provided as Debian packages (in
particular, Firefox extensions). It would be a bad idea to remove
ffmpeg without leaving time for the other developers to update
their software. FYI, I've just reported the bug for DownloadHelper:

  http://bugzilla.downloadhelper.net:8080/show_bug.cgi?id=467

The DownloadHelper conversion guide mentions Ubuntu concerning ffmpeg,
so that its developer should be concerned to what happens in Debian.

Also note that my main complaint was the wording in the package
description (due the "transitional package" term, I removed ffmpeg
several months ago, without knowing that it would remove a binary).

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