Public bug reported:
The way ffmpeg is described can be misinterpreted to imply that the ffmpeg
project has been universally depreciated, but it hasn't - it's still in active
development.
Also as this isn't an ffmpeg release of ffmpeg, but rather a libav release of
an old ffmpeg I think the package should be renamed to something like
ffmpeg-libav, with the package providing 'ffmpeg'.
Package info:
>Package: ffmpeg
>...
>Description-en: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
>(transitional package)
>Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to decode, encode, record,
>convert and stream audio and video.
>.
>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.
And when running ffmpeg:
>ffmpeg version 0.8.4-6:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the
>Libav developers
> built on Nov 6 2012 16:51:11 with gcc 4.7.2
>*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
>This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a
>future release. Please use avconv instead.
** Affects: libav (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088013
Title:
Ambigous use of "depreciated"
Status in “libav” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The way ffmpeg is described can be misinterpreted to imply that the ffmpeg
project has been universally depreciated, but it hasn't - it's still in active
development.
Also as this isn't an ffmpeg release of ffmpeg, but rather a libav release of
an old ffmpeg I think the package should be renamed to something like
ffmpeg-libav, with the package providing 'ffmpeg'.
Package info:
>Package: ffmpeg
>...
>Description-en: Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
(transitional package)
>Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to decode, encode, record,
>convert and stream audio and video.
>.
>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.
And when running ffmpeg:
>ffmpeg version 0.8.4-6:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the
Libav developers
> built on Nov 6 2012 16:51:11 with gcc 4.7.2
>*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
>This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a
future release. Please use avconv instead.
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