On 03/05/2012 06:26 PM, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 03/05/2012 03:40 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >>> But before getting there, the question is whether the existence of the >>> website (and its popularity) poses problem to Debian reputation and/or >>> to the activity of official Debian multimedia packaging. I think >>> this is >>> a question for the Debian Multimedia Maintainers (as in > >> I do think this website hurts Debian, and its user community. >> Let me explain, it's based on my past *user* experience. > > nobody is forcing you to install the packages of d-m-o
I never said this was the case. > if you have problems with them, report bugs, send patches or simple > _do_not_ install them. Well, I don't install them anymore, but I can easily understand that someone may install them because of a lack of knowledge and experience, which I currently have, but didn't when I was a user of d-m.o. By the way, the same applies to the PHP packages from dotdeb. I'd advise to *not* use them as well... >> Years ago, I was fooled into thinking that d-m.o was there only to >> address licensing issues, and bring packages that couldn't go in >> Debian. But d-m.o does a lot more, like re-packaging things that >> are already in Debian, and working very well there. > > i use/used d-m-o alot, because many packages in debian are stripped of > codecs, or crippled because of a upstream which doesn't care about > patents/licenses. Can you please care to give examples of these? > to expect that any third-party package archive is "stable" enough to > survive an debian dist-upgrade is just brave. Well, I don't expect that. But at the time (now I'm more careful), I didn't expect d-m.o to completely crash the upgrade process either. I did immediately understood what happened to me when it did, but I wouldn't expect an average user (let's say my wife or my mother...) to understand and remove the (should I say crappy again?) packages. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f54be57.3020...@debian.org
