[FFmpeg-user] Libav (Avconv) Imposition on Users who want FFmpeg

[miro.rovis at croatiafidelis.hr]

I hope this thread is still accepting replies.

I have written a text, below is part of it, and before posting it,

I wish to inform those among people from Debian who I am thankful to, 
and they
are Steve Langasek and Ian Jackson, as well as to this FFmpeg mailing 
list,
whose developers I am thankful for the FFmpeg program, and also to 
Christian
Marillat whose deb-multimedia,org repo I use for FFmpeg and other 
programs.

The text will contain a very specific mention of FFmpeg in Debian's 
Tails
GNU/Linux so it is relevant for all the recipients.  I am planning to 
post it
on:

Debian Development
http://forums.debian.net/viewforum.php?f=19

right after successful sending of this mail.

Here is part of the text, beginning lines first, and ending lines. Pls. 
visit
the Debian Development of the Debian Forums to read, hopefully, the 
entire
text, whose title will be:

Defeat and Hope for GNU/Linux

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I've read some (only some) of the discussions of the thread:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html#00441

for the

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

E.g., one message that I liked is this one:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00370.html

and I wish to thank the members of the Debian Technical Committee:

Steve Langasek

and

Ian Jackson

whose views and standpoints I admire and would follow wrt to the issue.

I wish to thank them for trying to bring reason into Debian.
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Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia,
www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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On 2014-04-24 11:31, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 24.04.2014 09:49, schrieb Dainius (GreatEmerald):
>>> This change is being done due to various reasons like matching
>>> default with Fedora and Debian
> 
> this is another lie in that context
> 
> * Fedora does *not* ship ffmpeg at all for patent reasons
> * rpmfusion does
> * rpmfusion does *not* ship libav, still the origin ffmpeg
> 
> Jason Garrett-Glaser is spreading lies over years
> 
> he even told me on the x264 list that the command "ffmpeg" is
> deprecated and ffmpeg is dead and replaced by libav at all