Bug#654984: libav: Please use a less confusing package name

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Wed Jan 11 00:19:21 UTC 2012


Reinhard Tartler <siretart <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not really convinced by 'avtools' and 'avutils', as both seem
> pretty generic to me. 'libav' was chosen to follow the name change of
> the project 'ffmpeg'->'libav'.

To clarify:
There was no name change, the FFmpeg project is active with no name change at
http://ffmpeg.org
libav is just one of several FFmpeg forks, all forks share several security
issues and many known bugs and regressions not present in FFmpeg, see the FFmpeg
bug tracker for details

Carl Eugen




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