The thing I most remember about this piece of history was that Debian, if you told it to install ffmpeg, barfed a message which said "ffmpeg is deprecated, you should switch to avconv".
I knew that wasn't true, and it was pretty insulting to be so brazenly lied to like that. It degraded my opinion of the Debian distro several notches.
(Also, remember when the version of the Bitcoin client in the Debian repo contained hardcoded addresses of several gambling sites which it prevented you from sending to? I think it was pretty clear that Debian maintainers had a lot of power, and sometimes abused that power.)
I knew that wasn't true, and it was pretty insulting to be so brazenly lied to like that. It degraded my opinion of the Debian distro several notches.
(Also, remember when the version of the Bitcoin client in the Debian repo contained hardcoded addresses of several gambling sites which it prevented you from sending to? I think it was pretty clear that Debian maintainers had a lot of power, and sometimes abused that power.)
(Edit: It seems my memory is faulty, and this "modified" version of the bitcoin client was distributed with Gentoo, not Debian: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/10/17/the-blacklist-de... )