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by denton-scratch 1206 days ago
> Debian patches too much

It does. This is partly because of The Debian Guarantee: I think that's why they delivered a castrated version of FFMPEG.

If upstream is deemed non-free, then they should just put the package in non-free, and delete it from main. Mangling upstream so they can squeeze it into main is worse than pointless.