Enable faad support in ffmpeg/experimental

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Well, everything different from resignation sounds good to me. If this
> concept proves its worth, I suggest releasing ffmpeg packages on a
> regular basis (e.g. as soon as something noteworthy is advertised on
> their homepage).

I have no problem in having regular updates of ffmpeg in
experimental. And I agree, we should really update the package in
unstable as well, just perhaps less often than in experimental.

> OTOH, there are still issues with several encoders (e.g. MPEG-2) and the
> question aroused if they should be included in Debian main or maybe
> non-free or not at all. Has this discusion seen any progress?

I'm not aware of any progress. AFAIUI, MPEG encoders are not accepted
in debian/non-free. The plan was to make the packaging in a way that one
can "create" a package suitable for debian/main easily from a "non-free"
package, which will be distributed outside the debian mirror network.

Moreover, I could imagine that derivative distribution might want to
accept the "non-free" package in their archives..

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4