Sorry to read that, it's not everyone's opinion, there are many great applications and features that wouldn't be easily accessible to Debian users without debian-multimedia. This isn't the place for such a discussion but since you brought it, every major distribution has it's "companion" multimedia/non-free repository, medibuntu for ubuntu, rpm-fusion for fedora, packman for opensuse, but it's only in Debian that I read such words. Sure it's expected that any external repository can cause compatibility problems from time to time, happens everywhere, but it's usually resolved quickly and without all the cheap hatred talk. All such compatibility problems I recall where resolved, and kindly documented and explained by Mr Marillat from d-m when asked. Surely I miss the historical background to understand the relation between d-m and some Debian developer/maintainer, but it certainly doesn’t look good from a user point of view. d-m repository is cited on every single Debian wiki or community site/forum, and for good reasons if you ask me, so you can continue to ignore it and give end users who doesn't necessary read debian-devel archive since debian 1.0 the "quit using this crap" talk, but it won't make d-m nor it's usefulness for users go away.
This is Debian own official wiki, isn't it ? http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Care to elaborate and enlighten your users ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
