On March 7th, upstream author Anthony Bilinski released new version 1.17.6 addressing this issue. We should package it as far as possible in order to unblock FFmpeg transition.
I am working on an NMU and discovered that Git packaging repository which d/control refers to, does not match source uploaded to Debian. However, both mention package version 1.17.4-1.
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