On 12-03-05 at 04:32pm, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:49:18PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 03/05/2012 08:51 PM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > >> But I've seen multiple instances of this issue over the years, on > > >> both desktop and server side. > > >> > > > You added debian-multimedia in a server system? If i were you i > > > would start by blaming myself for the problems. > > > > > Not me, my customer, and because they needed codecs to encode, which > > wasn't available in Debian. > > In other words, if not for Christian Marillat's work, your customer > would either be unable to do this on Debian, or, assuming enough > technical knowledge, have to beat upstream packages into working.
...or use another source which plays nicer with Debian, e.g. backports.debian.org. > Which shows that this service is valuable after all, even if it has > some kinks. Which kinks mostly boil down to s/lenny/squeeze/ on d-m.o > sources when you're doing s/lenny/squeeze/ on the rest -- a reasonable > thing to do during upgrade. No, that would only be the case if d-m.o played nice with Debian, which in fact it does not. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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