Bug#663456: why revive mediatomb?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:04:52PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
> Debian is about freedom of choice and I choice to use mediatomb.
I think you got that one wrong.... I remember something about debian
being for the users and free software.... ;)
> Longstanding issues are now gone....
I think it remains to be seen how well it'll be maintained this time around.
> ...thanks to Fedora being a great distro and maintaining this
> software, I am not alone.
> < http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=mediatomb.git >
Awesome to hear!
>
> May I ask why you seem so irritated about having mediatomb back? Are
> you a developer of some alternative?
I'm not irritated, I'm just reluctant to repeating the same mistakes over
and over again without reflecting over them.
The reason is that we keep failing our users with poor maintenance,
abandoning them stranded on an obsolete software with no migration path
(removing stuff which has lots of users is a total failure!),
and then doing this again and again...
Why do we (Debian) not learn from our mistakes?
And no, I'm not a developer of any alternative. You could ofcourse have looked
this up yourself as well. I'm mainly interested in looking out for our
users and providing them with something that have a better chance
of long-term maintenance.
> I am not the only one missing it, I got few mails about it which I
> redirected to debian-multimedia mailing list.
> < http://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2012/03/threads.html >
I'm well aware we left alot of users stranded the last time we removed
mediatomb from the archive..... I think it's very sad, and I think
it would be a mistake to repeat it.
I hope you manage to live up to your ambitions for the sake of our users!
--
Andreas Henriksson
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