Dear Jeroen and everybody, here attached is an email I sent in September.
Yes, I did ask to ftp-masters clarifications about your proposal in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00997.html and never received a reply. Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > While you indeed haven't got a later mail, you also didn't ask for one > to the best of my knowledge (my memory isn't infallible, so I might be > wrong, if so, I'm sorry, please correct me)... yes, your memory failed :-) (you are in the CC of the attached email) > I'm wondering what bit of my last few lines in the quoted email were > unclear. While I specifically noted that removing mpeg encoding stuff > might or might not be required, I explicitely said that stripping it > anyway will make the whole pondering on whether it can be in the > (source) package at all moot for the question whether mpeg encoding > would be legal to ship on ftp.debian.org. (sorry my english fails me here) >To the best of my knowledge, > mpeg encoding stuff is nowhere near the core funcionality of mplayer > anyway, isn't it? yes AFAIK mencoder cannot encode MPEG2 in this version (that is in NEW queue) > Of course, if this way is choosen and is turning out > to work out, later inclusion of the mpeg encoding stuff in mplayer must > be discussed with ftp-master prior to it happening -- we (as in, Debian > users in general) just get to have a chance of a slightly crippled > mplayer in the archive in the meanwhile. > I agree > As in all cases, final verdict on whether a package will pass NEW > is made at the time it's sitting in NEW and being processed by an > ftp-master team member Of course. This is what I have been waiting for. For 880 days, roughly. a.
>From debdev Mon Sep 26 11:33:39 2005
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:33:39 +0200
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Cc: Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: questions on mplayer
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Dear ftp-masters,=20
(and in particular Jeroen van Wolffelaar and Joerg Jaspert,
who have discussed the problem before),
in April 2005, during a thread discussing inclusion of mplayer in Debian,
at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00997.html
J. van Wolffelaar expressed the opinion that nowadays the only
issue still blocking acceptance of mplayer in Debian may be=20
the (*) presence of MPEG encoding software.=20
[(*) as a matter of fact, up to some time ago AFAIK mplayer was unable to
encode MPEG stream; but I heard that they are working on it]
J. van Wolffelaar also said though that "We're not (yet?) saying it's
*required* to strip MPEG encoding stuff, but in my personal opinion,
it seems likely that this is what it'll turn out to be."
I would be very grateful if the ftp-masters team may finally decide
what are the requirements so that mplayer be accepted into Debian;
in doing so, they may want to read
http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html
where M J Ray summarizes and links many info.
To fix ideas, I would need official (at least privately to us) answers
to these questions:
1) can mplayer be included into Debian, possibly with some fixes,
including removal of source from the mplayer...orig.tar.gz ?
2) (if yes) do we need to remove MPEG decoding stuff?
3) what other problems should we fix ?
(please read http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html
to know what has been already fixed )
The above questions are somewhat urgent, since the current version of
mplayer in NEW has a security bug, so I would love to prepare a new
version, and I would love to prepare it to comply to any request by
the ftp-masters, so that I may upload it into NEW for their review.
a.
--=20
Andrea Mennucc
"Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef"
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