Paul Bogmat,
> In the package ffmpeg should be ffmpeg, not libav. Maintainer is misleading 
> users.

it's not as bad as it seems at 1st glance:

1) ffmpeg binary package doesn't stand for complete FFmpeg suite;
instead of that, it provides a converter utility called ffmpeg (and possibly a 
player called ffplay or whatever else);
Libav project considers ffmpeg utility to be obsolete, replacing it with 
another tool called avconv (provided by libav-tools binary package);
therefore, ffmpeg binary package is designed for transition from ffmpeg utility 
to avconv (more to say, in some versions this package not only depends on 
libav-tools to get avconv, but provides ffmpeg utility itself);

2) the current source package is correctly named libav: 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav
and not ffmpeg (as it was in previous Ubuntu releases): 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg
thus, there's no confusion between them.

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