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Some more info on the Ubuntu side https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-May/000899.html

I think Reinhard's main concern was Michael's previous insistence on everyone using latest git master, which is bad for distros. That might have changed, seeing ffmpeg has many point releases now.