The Technical Board discussed this at today's regularly scheduled meeting,
whose minutes are available at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/11/June
Here is the relevant excerpt:
* The ffmpeg project has forked upstream into ffmpeg and libav
* Ubuntu is currently shipping libav only, because the ffmpeg package
maintainer chose to package this version
* The consensus of the Technical Board at the meeting was to regard these
as separate software projects, which implies:
+ The choice of what to package is rightfully made by the maintainer
The Technical Board does not decide what software individual
maintainers choose to package.
+ If another developer wished to package ffmpeg for Ubuntu, this would
be welcome
+ If that were to happen, we would address any technical conflicts as
they arose
I hope that this addresses your concern. Let us know if you have any
further questions.
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