I wrote: >> Contrast rte, where the ftpmasters told Marillat exactly what he needed to >> remove to get the package in Debian, and he didn't do it, and declared that >> he would keep uploading it. Leaving *that* in limbo is totally reasonable.
Christian Marillat wrote: >I've *never* received any e-mail saying that. Perhaps I have misinterpreted the following message from the bug trail to bug 112699: >From: Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: rte_0.4-0.0_i386.changes REJECTED >Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:32:55 +0100 > >On 10233 March 1977, Christian Marillat wrote: > >>> Yes, this is the reject of the rte package which was in NEW until now. >>> Reasons: >>> - It is an encoding thing, which encodes to formats which are patented, and >>> the patent holder are actually enforcing their patents. Found some >>> hits for this with a little question to google. >> Are you serious ? We have ffmpeg (and soon mencoder in the mplayer >> package)in Debian who does exactly what rte does and rte can't enter >> Debian ? ffmpeg should be removed then. > >Yes, ffmpeg encoding stuff shouldnt be there, and no, mplayer wont get >in with mencoder included. I already talked with upstream about it, he >will talk with Debian maintainer to exclude this thing, before we take a >closer look at it. .... >>> If this reasons are no longer true in the future feel free to >>> re-upload it, but for now it is out. >> Done. I've uploaded 0.5.6-1 > >As written above: ENCODING is still an issue and therefore at least one >reason is still true. So dont hope too much it will get through. > >-- >bye Joerg >Die d??mmsten H??hne haben die dicksten Eier. I read this as "remove MPEG encoding and it will go in." Don't you? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
