Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sam Hocevar wrote: (statically linked for performance reasons, rotfl) Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. I don't know whether modern CPUs' register aliasing hardware changes that number. Whether

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Sam Hocevar wrote: (statically linked for performance reasons, rotfl) Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. I don't know

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. ... by testing with somewhat typical programs. I don't know whether

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:00AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%.

mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Andrea Mennucc
well, I changed my mind a packaging of mplayer 0.90 is available at deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/ ./ we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the work we did is enough to let this package in Debian it has also been uploaded to the queue (in case an ftp-installer

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003, Andrea Mennucc wrote: we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the work we did is enough to let this package in Debian The MPlayer tree contains an almost verbatim copy of libdvdcss (statically linked for performance reasons, rotfl) and a copy

why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread A Mennucc1
hi I just want to say that some time ago Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I decided to package mplayer when we uploaded for the first time, the ftp-installer had some (good) reasons not to accept it so we went into it and tried to clear all possible problems w.r.t. DFSG: we sent e-mails

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:07:28PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: *SNIP* ( last time I tried, it looked as if there was some automatic filter that drops mplayer from the incoming queue: indeed, I never received the e-mail reply 'mplayer is new, please wait' that is sent on upload of a new

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi A Mennucc1, I just want to say that some time ago Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I decided to package mplayer when we uploaded for the first time, the ftp-installer had some (good) reasons not to accept it so we went into it and tried to clear all possible problems w.r.t.

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:07:28PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: ( last time I tried, it looked as if there was some automatic filter that drops mplayer from the incoming queue: indeed, I never received the e-mail reply 'mplayer is new, please wait' that is sent on upload of a new package) If

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread A Mennucc1
hello I had actually asked for help on debian-legal, in [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00173.html In our packaging of mplayer there is a file debian/README.Debian.2 that explain our study on the source of mplayer; and indeed in the e-mail [1] I clearly

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread A Mennucc1
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:49:46PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:07:28PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: ( last time I tried, it looked as if there was some automatic filter that drops mplayer from the incoming queue: indeed, I never received the e-mail reply

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, A Mennucc1 wrote: In our packaging of mplayer there is a file debian/README.Debian.2 that explain our study on the source of mplayer; and indeed in the e-mail [1] I clearly ask: debian-legal: please read debian/README.Debian.2 in the source; do you think that it

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
[NB: I'm subscribed to -devel, no need to Cc: me.] On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, A Mennucc1 wrote: actually: the issue of J.U. is more about packaging than legal; This is true. on the issue about mpeg2dec... from http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00231.html I

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread A Mennucc1
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:45:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, A Mennucc1 wrote: Junichi Uekawa asked for the contents of README.Debian.2 to go in debian/copyright, where it belongs. I asked about the mpeg2dec issue, as it wasn't included in the list of files with

Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi A Mennucc1, I had actually asked for help on debian-legal, in [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200301/msg00173.html This and the follow-ups you have now received are great. It must be very frustrating when so much time goes by that someone like myself misses