Comment 5 for bug 304249
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| James Westby (james-w) wrote Re: [Bug 304249] Re: [jaunty] Presets should be updated because the ffmpeg version in Ubuntu is newer than in Debian | #5 |
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 16:48 +0000, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 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/
I believe that would be fine.
> 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?
This is a good idea. Would you like to propose an updated diff with
these changes?
Thanks,
James