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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088013 Title: Ambigous use of "depreciated" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1088013/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs