On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:30:17PM +0200, Till Gerken wrote: > Hello, > > I think this question has been asked before, but the archive search > didn't really reveal anything meaningful. > > I intend to package KMencoder, which is a front-end to MEncoder for KDE. > MEncoder in turn is a part of MPlayer, which is not in Debian due to > licensing conflicts. Sorry for asking this. Maybe it has already been answered. I have been pushing mplayer developers (might even be the cause why they do not care about by bug reports anymore) to have the complete code as GPL. So far, as announced in their mailing list, mplayer is completelly GPL, except for an small set of files, which can be disabled during build, so the package can be introduced in Debian. Regarding the Win32 libs, they can be left out, as we do with msttfonts. Maybe is time to ask again in mplayer list about the GPL status of their code... On the other hand, installing the KMencoder should request for user input, asking where the mencoder utility is located (maybe the script can check common places and provide them as possibilities). I recall some other packages having the same format: telling the user the package needs another package that is not provided by debian. But I do not recall the exact package. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. http://www.HispaLinux.es/~data/ | data.pandacrew.org ------------------------------------------------------ Please, encrypt mail address to me: GnuPG ID: 86946D69 FP: BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux user #66350 Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.19 Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. --Tyles Durden (Fight club)
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