Hello Oded,
Am 2004-10-24 13:40:55, schrieb Oded Shimon:
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this:
>
> I built a program, and am now working on a creating a Debian package for it.
> the program is an MEncoder frontend, and it depends on MPlayer to work
> (without it, it would crash on startup).
???
> MPlayer is not in the debian archives, from what I understand because of
> patents. I put MPlayer as a 'Suggests' in my program.
This is Wrong, because if your frondend crashs if MPLayer is not
installed, you must change it from "Suggests" to "Depends" or
maybe Pre-Depends.
> My question is, where does my program belong? contrib, or main?
If your frontend meeds the conditons of GPL and DFSG, the you can
put it into contrib.
> - ods15
Greetings
Michelle
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