Re: mplayer, the time has come

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit debdev@tonelli.sns.it (A Mennucc)

> Solution:
> the DeCSS  is deleted from the package proposed for Debian 
> (for this reason, I upload mplayer as a native package); 

That is not a valid reason to pretend it is a native package. The
correct thing to do is to create a new .orig.tar.gz with the offending
files removed from it, but keep the rest of the .orig.tar.gz
unchanged. Debian changes and package infrastructure should still go
in a .diff.gz, and the package version should consist of an upstream
version with a separate Debian revision.

-- 
Henning Makholm                            "What a hideous colour khaki is."