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Re: mplayer, the time has come



On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, A Mennucc wrote:
> Henning Makholm wrote:
> >Scripsit debdev@tonelli.sns.it (A Mennucc)
> >That is not a valid reason to pretend it is a native package. The
> >
> I object to this
> 
> a file   mplayer....orig.tar.gz      is, as the name says, the original 
> distributed source

Stop with the weed.  We have been removing non-free stuff from .orig tarbals
since ever.

> distributing my modified tar.gz disguising it as the upstream original 
> one would be cause of confusion

That's what the debian/copyright file is for.  Or a debian/README.Source,
and so on.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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