Bug#729203: support request for providing ffmpeg *program*
I also support the request for bringing back the ffmpeg *program*.
I think most people (who are not involved in the development and/or
package maintenance of libav or ffmpeg; like myself) do not have a
strong opinion on which library vlc, chromium or other programs use.
It's the decision of the developers and/or package maintainers of those
programs which one the use, and it is their responsibility to make sure
those programs still work correctly after a switch from one library to
another. I dare to say that most users would not even notice.
What people do notice, is when their scripts fail because a program they
have been using for a long time is "silently" replaced with something
else that doesn't work in the (exact) same way.
It took me quite some time to figure out what was going on, when I tried
to apt-get install ffmpeg on a new machine where I hadn't added
deb-multimedia to the repositories yet (which I had on other machines,
but for different reasons) and it didn't behave as expected. I had never
heard of libav before, and I don't think I completely understand the
situation, even after reading
http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html and this page
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203) and I
certainly don't want to jump into what seems to be a very hot discussion.
On 2014-02-05 07:44, Adrian Bunk wrote:
That was fixed last year September when the ffmpeg packages was
removed from unstable.
The confusing *transitional* packages that is. That is certainly better
than the current situation in stable, but actually having back ffmpeg
(the program) would make almost everyone happy, I believe.
Cheers, Dietmar
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