Re: improvements on desktop task

["Gustavo Franco" <gustavorfranco@gmail.com>]

On 8/30/06, Fathi Boudra <fboudra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 août 2006 15:11, Gustavo Franco a écrit :
> > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org is venerable. And have codecs, java,
> > > > flash, acrobat reader and more.  It should not be the default, but
> > > > should be offered as an option.
> > >
> > > While debian-multimedia.org might be a good source of packages for
> > > users, I am not sure it addresses copyright concerns fully and see above
> > > for non-Debian repositories.
> >
> > Exactly. Btw, does anybody checked what's in debian-multimedia and can
> > be included in non-free or contrib ?
>
> debian-multimedia.org is maintained by Christian Marillat, a Debian Developer.
> I imagine (maybe wrong) that packages on d-m.org can't enter in non-free or
> contrib, especially package that makes this site popular (mplayer,
> w32codecs). I doubt that christian maintains his own repository for fun.

I can see you don't know Christian Marillat. :-)

Btw, w32codecs was removed and mplayer still has issues but already
was uploaded to Debian (and rejected by ftpmasters) yes.

regards,
-- stratus