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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> 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

How about we keep this fight out of Debian?  It seems clear that the place for libav bug reports would be the libav bug tracker.  It also seems clear libav is an ffmpeg fork, and ffmpeg is also alive as a project.  Its certainly not the first time such a thing has happened in the world of free software.

I think there should also be room for someone to package ffmpeg for Debian if they wanted to since it provides different things than libav.  I see no reason for Debian policy to dictate that ffmpeg not be allowed in Debian, please illuminate me if you believe otherwise.  I do fear that useful software (ffmpeg in this case) will be prevented from inclusion in Debian.

.hc

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