• Bug#982299: No rtsp:// with Debians vlc

    From Philipp Matthias Hahn@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 5 18:20:01 2025
    Hello fellow Debian maintainer,

    I wasted several hours only to find out that Debian disabled rtsp://
    while the rest of the world (VLC on Android, ffplay) is completely fine
    with it.

    Even
    [man:vlc(1)](https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/vlc-bin/vlc.1.en.html)
    stilll contains:
    rtsp://<server address>[:<server port>]/<stream name>
    RTSP Video On Demand stream

    An no 'Debian.NEW' file, not even an entry in `debian.changelog` when
    3.0.12 was released. How are normal people supposed to find that out?

    1. Please add an entry to debian/changelog
    2. Please create a NEWS.Debian file
    3. Please remove 'rtsp://' from the manual page
    4. Consider printing a proper error message that support for 'rtsp://'
    got yanked.
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