Bug#729203: not just shameful and fraudulent. Also defamitory and un-foss-ly

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I am shocked that debian have sunk so low. Fraudulently packaging one
offering and passing it off as another is one issue.

Defaming the author of the original package whilst impersonating them
is another much bigger issue entirely.

I make no claim to have a detailed understanding of the exact letter
of the GPL, but the free software ethos is pretty clear to me: that,
if you take someone's work and fork it and amend it and re-distribute
it, then you do not hold it out to be the original. You clearly define
what is different and are straight forward and up front about what you
have changed.

This is so sordid and shady. Goodbye debian, ubuntu, mint and deb. It
was fun while it lasted. I might come to visit occasionally for some
steam action. Luckily steam doesn't depend on "libav pretending to be
someone they aren't".