Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au> writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Vedran Furac wrote: >> Btw. why then mencoder, can't be packaged? Why are only ffmpeg -dev in >> debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/ffmpeg.html? > > Only ffmpeg-dev is in Debian as ffmpeg upstream recommends static linking > due to not having fixed the API/ABI. Upstream recommends nothing. Upstream simply don't care about shared libraries. Christian