Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:55 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer
> > so i install etch, only to use mplayer
> > only to learn mencoder is not included
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> What is mencoder?
> 
> It may not be possible to be part of debian but it may be on
> debian-multimedia.org.

That is indeed the case:

~$ apt-cache policy mencoder
mencoder:
  Installed: 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3
  Candidate: 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3 0
        500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Liam