Package: ffmpeg Version: 0.cvs20070307-6 Severity: important
#439897 notwithstanding, version 0.cvs20070307-6 of the package added a debian/strip.sh script to disable MPEG2 encoding capabilities. It might not yet be disabled in all scenarios, but it has been disabled in an important capability, making it useless to a large class of users in a specific locale. Precisely, encoding on the fly as a stream output has been broken from the point of view of vlc, which breaks freeplayer. See bugs #440216, #440508. Yet, apart from this excerpt from the changelog.Debian: * Add debian/strip.sh to strip ffmpeg upstream source disabling mpeg based encoders as discussed with ftp-master at debconf7 there appears to be zero information about the rationale for this removal in /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg, not even patents.txt. Please state the rationale for this removal, in a less terse way. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on: ii libavcodec1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg codec library ii libavformat1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg file format library ii libavutil1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg utility library ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libimlib2 1.3.0.0debian1-4 powerful image loading and renderi ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-9 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libswscale1d 0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg video scaling library ffmpeg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]