On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:08:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Eric Dorland] > > This has probably been covered ad nauseum, but where do we stand in > > respect to getting mplayer in Debian? > [Nathanael Nerode] > > IIRC, the copyright issues were carefully worked out and solved > > after several years, finally reaching the approval of debian-legal. > > At which point it went into the NEW queue, to be silently ignored > > forever by the ftpmasters with no explanation. > This is becoming an increasingly frequently asked question. What > about making a wiki page explaining the status with links to the > debian-legal thread and other relevant info? MJ Ray's already done such a summary; it's rather trivially inadequate, due to the information its summarising being equally inadequate. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00901.html > This way we would point > people there to read the answer, and hopefully the ftpmasters might > find useful information there too when they find time to make a > decision? Coming to a decision on inadequate information isn't particularly clever. Seriously, if you want something useful to happen about this, *thoroughly* investigate what's actually going on, with an open mind about the possibility of coming to the conclusion that, eg, it's just too much of a risk to include mplayer in Debian. Cheers, aj
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