[$] Why Debian returned to FFmpeg

Slightly less than one year ago, the Debian community had an extended discussion on whether the FFmpeg multimedia library should return tothe distribution. Debian had followed the contentious libav fork when it happened in 2011, but somecommunity members were starting to have second thoughts about that move.At the time, the discussion died out without any changes being made, but the seeds hadevidently been planted; on July 8, the project's multimedia developersannounced that not only was FFmpegreturning to Debian, but it would be replacing libav.

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