[aklug] Re: Debian Day August 16, 2015

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
Date: Mon Aug 17 2015 - 00:58:00 AKDT

On Monday 17 August 2015 12:12:13 am Greg Schmitz wrote:
> On 08/16/2015 10:37 PM, Royce Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> wrote:
> >> From Wheezy a while back, "This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg
> >> program. This package also serves as a transitional package to
> >> libav-tools. Users are advised to use avconv from the libav-tools
> >> package instead of ffmpeg." <https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ffmpeg>
> >>
> >> My issue with Debian has to do with trust and the integrity of the OS
> >> package, as well as functionality. At least one of the folks in a
> >> position to influence what is/was included in the Debian distro was also
> >> affiliated with libav (forked from ffmpeg) and managed to get ffmpeg
> >> pulled from the Debian distro. I was shocked when I installed a Debian
> >> package and was informed that ffmpeg was "Deprecated," which was of
> >> course a lie (and not included in the distro or the repository either).
> >> FFmpeg is a tool that I use on a regular basis. What other packages
> >> have been discarded by Debian for reasons other than functionality and
> >> use? Ironically Debian has now moved back to ffmpeg and dropped libav
> >> [1].
> >>
> >> --greg schmitz
> >>
> >> [1] Corbet, Jonathan. "Why Debian returned to FFmpeg" 2015 July 13;
> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
> >
> > Very informative - hadn't heard about the libav/ffmpeg tussle. Thanks
> > for relaying this.
> >
> > Royce
>
> Corbet, it seems to me, is careful in his article about Debian returning
> to ffmpeg to avoid a discussion of why the choice was made to remove
> ffmpeg from the Debian distro in the first place. That has been
> discussed elsewhere and makes for interesting reading. It's also worth
> noting that the battle has taken its toll and that Michael Neidermayer
> has resigned from the ffmpeg project:
>
> "The leader of the FFmpeg open source project has resigned amid ongoing
> turmoil among the project's
> developers."<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/05/ffmpeg_leader_steps_do
>wn/ <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/05/ffmpeg_leader_steps_down/>>
>
> FWIW Neidermayer, who is one of the folks working on the ffv1 open
> source codec <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFV1>, has, it seems,
> offered assurances that he will continue his work on the codec.
>
> --greg schmitz

We eat our young / shoot the wounded ;-)

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Greg M
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