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by birkbork 4350 days ago
Finally, thank you!

A package called "ffmpeg" has been in debian forever now, and running it's binary claims that "ffmpeg is deprecated", which is a complete lie.

EDIT: also see "FFmpeg and a thousand fixes" [1], suggesting that FFmpeg is working hard improving the security situation, while libav mainly ignored the effort.

PPS also i dont like the libav crew

1: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.se/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-t...
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Crito 4350 days ago
"it's binary claims that "ffmpeg is deprecated", which is a complete lie."

I hadn't been keeping up with ffmpeg development or the debian packaging scene, so that message caught me completely by surprise and threw me for a loop. I spent a good 10 minutes on google trying to first figure out why ffmpeg was being deprecated, and then trying to figure out why debian was lying to me.

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camperman 4350 days ago
"and running it's binary claims that "ffmpeg is deprecated", which is a complete lie."

Ubuntu as well. That immediately made up my mind never to use libav. Incredibly unprofessional since 90 seconds of googling turned up the fact there was a fork and a dispute.

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klodolph 4350 days ago
Well, Ubuntu's package maintainers are mostly Debian package maintainers... same goes for Mint.
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