ffmpeg status?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:27:41PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:
> 
> >> I don't think we are doing our users a service by providing a crippled
> >> ffmpeg package in main called 'ffmpeg'. I think having the source
> >> package reflecting the fact that it is not as upstream released it is
> >> only honest.
> >
> > Allright. Moreover I (AFAICT upstream, too) am happy with any other
> > package name than 'ffmpeg-free'. ;)
> 
> Yes, I've spoken to Diego about this (CC'ed), and he even suggested the
> name ffmpeg-restricted. Therefore I'd like to rename the source package
> again on the next upload.

I can assure you that upstream is very much in favor of this change :)

> > I had another idea over the weekend: Given that there are quite some
> > dependencies between the libraries -dev packages in ffmpeg, how do you
> > like the idea of a single 'ffmpeg-dev' package that contains all headers
> > and static libraries?
> 
> Diego, what do you think about this?

I don't care how you split the package.

Diego
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