Bug#729203: CTTE and reasonable solutions

[Jan Larres <jan@majutsushi.net>]

On 04/02/14 12:08, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> If both packages are ABI-compatible, then ffmpeg can be designed as a
> drop-in replacement for libav and users will be free to choose.

As far as I understand it the problem is that it is *not* a drop-in
replacement as far as the libraries are concerned, every package needs
to be recompiled depending on which library should be used. So you would
need two different packages for every program that uses the libraries if
you wanted to offer both in parallel. And I don't think Adrian (or
anyone else) is against ffmpeg as such, it's just that there should be
made a decision which one to use in order to avoid these issues.

Jan