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/Suggests).
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 -- [jaunty] Presets should be updated because the ffmpeg version in Ubuntu is newer than in Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304249 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
