Package: ffmpeg
Version: 7:4.1.1-1
Severity: normal

ffmpeg currently has a hard dependency on libsdl2. This pulls in a
*huge* number of graphics-related dependencies. For a desktop/laptop,
that's fine, and likely won't pull in much the user doesn't already
have. However, on a headless server (using ffmpeg for transcoding and
similar), this pulls in numerous additional GUI packages that wouldn't
otherwise be installed. For this specific library, please consider
detecting its availability at runtime, and switching to Recommends.

Thank you.

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