Re: Debian multimedia repository

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 03/08/12 04:00 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:17:08PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> > It's not Christian's fault that there are incompatibilities. There
> > are things in the programs he packages that require libraries to be
> > compiled differently from the ones in the Debian repositories. He's
> > aware of the conflicts but is not in a position to resolve them as
> > far as I can tell. It may not even be possible to resolve them.
> So you seem to know more than:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-April/026170.html
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-April/026219.html
>
> A google search:
> "Christian Marillat" site:lists.alioth.debian.org
> is also revealing.
I take the view that there are usually two sides to a story. It's been a 
while since I've exchanged e-mails with Christian but his version of the 
story is a little different.

Anyway, I'm not going to dis anyone who puts his personal time toward 
making software freely available. As I said earlier, I've stopped using 
his repository rather reluctantly. He has some nice stuff that I'd love 
to see in the official tree.