Enable faad support in ffmpeg/experimental

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> 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.

Why?! If we want to improve both the code and the packaging we need as 
much feedback as possible and should not "hide" the packages in 
experimental.

Release fast - release often (and fix bugs)! ;)

> 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.

This is why I wanted to implement the get-orig-source rule in 
debian/rules. You should be able to download exactly the same source 
code that was used for the Debian package - *including* the stripped 
codecs. This way the complete packaging (including all patches) would 
still apply and you could roll your own ffmpeg-packages with the 
smallest interdiff relative to the "original" Debian packages.

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

Yes. Or repositories offering unofficial Debian packages that do not 
want to diverge from the "original" Debian packages as much as e.g. 
debian-multimedia does.


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