I am sorry : I see that some parts of my previous e-mail may sound
harsher than they intended to be
MJ Ray wrote:
A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If mplayer is so free, so why is it so darn difficult to have it in
Debian???
[...]
I hope that's enough of a "why". I don't know if
MJ Ray wrote:
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, y
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 loo
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 tha
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?
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: "
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:
MJR
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
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:
> MJR wrote:
> >deb
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-1.0
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 it
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