Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, this looks like a different situation to win32codecs.sh to me. How does this downloader script differ from f-prot-installer in contrib? Both depend on some non-free software they download. If it was packaged on its own, it'd go in contrib. However, it's a

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread A Mennucc
MJ Ray wrote: Please don't cc me or send me HTML duplicates (see also debian lists code of conduct). Thanks to Henning Makholm for replying already with some answers I couldn't remember. I agree with all of that post. Further, it looks like this doesn't need to be a native package. a. wrote:

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread A Mennucc
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] debianizer - isn't there a debian/rules way to do this now? no way at all Yes way. Look up the documentation of 'debian/rules get-orig-source' in policy. sorry there was a deep misunderstanding here I thought you meant: is

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henning Makholm wrote: If they are in the upstream sources and free enough for us to ship in the source package, we should ship them in the source package. If mplayer is so free, so why is it so darn difficult to have it in Debian??? Calm down, you

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread MJ Ray
A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should compare mplayer and the win32codecs.sh which installs win32codecs to libdvdread3 and the installer which installs libdvdcss2 I've explained why I think that is not a good comparison. libdvdcss2 is not in the distribution because of fears that

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-17 Thread MJ Ray
A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ideally, mplayer should have entered Debian some two years ago. This is not an ideal world. In this real world, mplayer is not in the archive, and my first priority is getting it in there. [...] OK, back to priority one: copyright-wise, your package looks

[Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-15 Thread A Mennucc
sorry I sent this reply to the wrong list I also add two missing answers MJ Ray wrote: Andrea Mennucc wrote: I have uploaded a new version of the 'mplayer' package for Debian, namely version 1.0pre6-1 I have reviewed this package, but I've not tried building

Re: [Fwd: Re: mplayer, the time has come]

2005-02-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] debianizer - isn't there a debian/rules way to do this now? no way at all Yes way. Look up the documentation of 'debian/rules get-orig-source' in policy. suppose that I do this: $ tar xjf MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2 $ mv MPlayer-1.0pre6 mplayer-1.0pre6