FWIW, I found your mail unnecessarily offensive. "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 9/22/06, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Upstream does care for legal issues, and patents in particular. Check >> the mplayer development mailing list archive for the last months. > > For the last months, as you say. Maybe this is because of the increased > pressure now that software patents are now being enforced and so on. At > the beginning they seemed to just chuck in whatever. > [...] > The Mplayer devs are still not communicating with Debian about the > remaining problems. To rectify them we need to communicate better and > get their input on d-l and d-d. Regarding your attitude and how you (most probably not delibrately, and its really not only you) spread misinformation, I can really understand why upstream mplayer developers do not seek dialogue on the public mailing lists debian-devel and debian-legal. It's a too wide audience and a too heated topic to get useful results. On the other hand, I got contacted by upstream (DonDiego and Rathann) because I care for the mplayer package in ubuntu. They were very friendly, helpful and listened to our concerns. They explained us some thing we didn't really realise, and helped us to improve the package. You see, upstream does communicate with distros. In fact, they told us that they contacted SuSE (IIRC) before. Considering your contributions to this thread, I see 3 possibilites: - you are interested in not having a mplayer package in debian, then please clearly say so. I don't have that impression - you are not interested in having a mplayer package in debian, then please refrain from contributing offensive posts like your previous ones. - you are interested in having a mplayer package in debian, then please try to learn the current status and problems why its not in debian (yet). As I said in another post, I don't really know them either, but I'm confident that Andrea and the ftpmaster will come up with an result in due time. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
