On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagr...@d.umn.edu> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Milan P. Stanic <m...@arvanta.net> wrote: >>>> For me d-m.o was (and still is) valuable resource. >>>> Some codecs missing in Debian packages because of the policy (I don't >>>> blame Debian for that) and in that case d-m.o is best option for me >>>> because I don't want/have time to package it from the source. >>> >>> Out of curiousity, what codecs do you miss in the official debian packages? >> >> libdvdcss2 > > This is not a codec but a software package that cracks an encryption > algorithm. It has been packaged for debian proper, uploaded and got > rejected by ftp-master. BTW, the reason did not involve patents, > AFAIUI.
I understand that it is not a codec. ;) Nevertheless, it is a package that I find myself installing on just about any workstation with a DVD drive. > As an alternative source, the libdvdread3 package used to ship a > /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh script, which fetched a > libdvdcss2 packages from debian-unofficial.org. From a packaging and > maintenance POV, that package is in a much better state. Too bad that > the libdvdread maintainer removed that really handy script. What then is the "recommended" way of installing a the decryption library for DVD/CSS? I mean, from what I've read in this thread, d-m.o is not cooperative with d.o regarding packages, what is the recommended way of installing that libdvdcss2? Cheers, -mz -- 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/caolfk3wwy8k2agk-y307zbncroydamxitmpe_576s_nd8me...@mail.gmail.com
