On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:12:13 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:13:21 -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:27 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> >> On Lu, 15 nov 10, 09:21:54, Celejar wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps I took it the wrong way, but I thought that the maintainer
> >> > could have been a bit more cooperative and sympathetic, given that
> >> > we're dealing with a repo which is widely used and practically
> >> > official, even though it technically isn't.
> >>
> >> While I tend to agree with you, it seems to me DDs are not very
> >> enthusiastic about work done outside the Debian Project. In most cases
> >> their skepticism is justified (it's not just a case of NIH[1]).
> >
> > But that's exactly the point! Camaleón asked why someone wouldn't use
> > dmo, and I responded by pointing out that there will be inevitable
> > conflicts between packages from dmo and the official repos, and I noted
> > that DDs may just brush you off if you report such problems.
>
> The same you describe here is what happens in other distributions... in
> fact, external repositories ("community driven" ones) are always
> problematic to deal with in a way that some of these repos provide
> packages which conflicts with the stock ones (same package, different
> versions, usually with no restrictions -like codecs, etc...) and more
> often than we would like problems arise... and you can't go to the bug
> tracking system and complain there, devels will just tell you:
>
> a) To contact the package owner to fix the bug
> b) To install stock version of the package
>
> Sad (from user's side), but understable (from a DD perspective).
>
> But I didn't know "debian-multimedia" also suffers from this... I mean,
> most of the packages are available under standard repos and just the ones
> with "terse" licences need to be downloaded from external sources.
There's another category: some programs are available from the official
repos as well as dmo, which uses different build switches, or later
versions (e.g., ffmpeg, mplayer).
Celejar
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