On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Matt Taggart <tagg...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Andres, > > I'm glad you are working to package xbmc. I have recently been looking at > Boxee ( http://boxee.tv/ ) which is based on it. The Boxee people always > point out that they are an "Open Source project", from what I read on the > wikipedia page > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee > > a lot of it is GPL but they also have some closed source code as well > (mainly the library for communicating with their value add services). > > As part of packaging xbmc will you also consider packaging the DFSG-free > parts of boxee? I guess they already have an apt repo for Ubuntu > > http://apt.boxee.tv/ > > and some people have managed to get those debs working on lenny/sid > > http://forums.boxee.net/showthread.php?t=4197 > http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=21147
the packages work fine in debian and I guess they could be a good source of clues on how to package xbmc (boxee is basically xbmc+a skin+some plugins), but I think they are is far from obeying the debian packaging policy. Another big issue is that AFAIK xbmc only works on x86 and support for other architectures is not a priority for upstream. Please corret me if I'm wrong. Can't wait to see xbmc in debian (maybe with a working powerpc port) Cheers, Emme > > I have not looked at them yet myself. > > I guess one thing that will determine this is how close to xbmc development > boxee stays, and how quickly they will incorporate the good changes that > are happening to make xbmc use system libs and more FHS sane. > > Please let me know if you want someone to test or review packages. > > Thanks, > > -- > Matt Taggart > tagg...@debian.org > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 469397-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
