On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:33:43 Fabian Greffrath wrote: > We shouldn't even attempt to touch legal ground. Just tell the users > where they can find more information, e.g. > <http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html>, and that they are > using it at their own risk.
I believe our users deserve to know why they can't have "normal" libdvdcss. We could quote wikipedia: "due to fears of running afoul of DMCA-style laws" etc. I'm open to the suggestions of better warnings. You're right, link to upstream page is worth mentioning. > > Could you be more specific please? > > Do you mean to embed guest package changelog to host package NEWS or to > > use NEWS to articulate the fact that we're building package on client > > side? > > No, the actual libdvdcss package (is that what you refer to as guest > package?) should have dh_installchangelogs install NEWS instead of > Changelog. I think that won't be right to do. The idea is build a normal package which complies with our policy. I see no reason to misuse NEWS for changelog. > > But the patch is there, properly annotated. I'm afraid I don't quite > > follow you again. > > I am talking about this one: > > <http://svn.videolan.org/comp.php?repname=libdvdcss&compare[]=%2F@254&compa > re[]=%2F@255> > Thank you for this one, I'll incorporate. That patch of yours was great, thank you. Regards, Dmitry. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
