[Bug 304249] Re: [jaunty] Presets should be updated because the ffmpeg version in Ubuntu is newer than in Debian

[Paul Gevers]

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I had a long holiday.

> I'm not sure we should be recommending the restricted-extras packages.
> I'm not sure if there is a concrete policy on this, a suggests may be ok.
> What would happen if I sponsored the rest of the changes without that one?

Basically that would be fine of course. But it would be really nice if
people that have the multiverse repositories enabled would pull in the
unstripped versions of ffmpeg, because without it most presets are
useless (that is why Debian has such a small amount of presets). On the
winff forums [1] most questions are when people are using a restricted
version of ffmpeg and are not able to convert the files to the type they
request. So indeed, at the very least have the suggests (I assume that
using Suggests would follow Debian-policy on the Recommends/Suggests).

Unfortunately the policies and license issues with ffmpeg are not very
understandable for the novice users. Would it be appropriate to mention
this in the description of the winff package?

Paul

[1] http://winff.org/forums

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[jaunty] Presets should be updated because the ffmpeg version in Ubuntu is newer than in Debian
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