Re: mplayer

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@sbcglobal.net>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:03:25PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake guenter geiger:
> > > So can we package it now for Debian?
> > 
> > No the info is old. But still it means that mplayer can finally go
> > into Debian. The problems is rather who is going to package it.
> 
> Christian Marillat has had Debian packages for stable and unstable for
> quite some time now.
> 
> http://marillat.free.fr/  For more information.

But he refuses to officially support them, and I can't say I blame him.
Getting mplayer in to Debian is more a political problem than anything,
as both groups have managed to totally alienate each other fairly
recently. The trick will be to find a maintainer who's willing to step
in to that line of fire.

 - David Nusinow