VideoLink no longer works with the official Debian package of ffmpeg because it does...

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..6e8293f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+videolink (1.2.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * VideoLink no longer works with the official Debian package of ffmpeg
+    because it does not include the mpeg2video encoder due to patent
+    threats.  Therefore it is now in the contrib section.  You will need
+    to get ffmpeg or mjpegtools from the "debian-multimedia" repository
+    <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/> or from upstream.  End Software
+    Patents!
+
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:42:50 +0100

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 86a09574c938158372289717697ab9ad0b27a516..199171b1d38a236dbff7c895834c61b1ca907da0 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ videolink (1.2.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
   * New upstream version
   * Switched to XULRunner 1.9
   * Made Homepage a real control field
+  * VideoLink no longer works with the official Debian package of ffmpeg
+    because it does not include the mpeg2video encoder due to patent
+    threats.  Therefore it is now in the contrib section.
 
- -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:13:36 +0100
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:44:31 +0100
 
 videolink (1.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 10c00ecfb055095409f12bed592f453f4124ed22..e169d74a161f17fff7d30f69cc4c8f87ce9a36c2 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Source: videolink
 Maintainer: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-Section: graphics
+Section: contrib/graphics
 Priority: extra
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>=4), libboost-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev, xulrunner-dev, libexpat1-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2