Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 00:00 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
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> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-04-19 16:19, Clive McBarton wrote:
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> >> How come there is no link anywhere on debian.org pointing to
> >> debian-multimedia.org? Anything to establish a chain of trust. As it is,
> >> I looked and looked but didn't find. Even when searching for
> >> "multimedia" on debian.org, it does not mention debian-multimedia.org at
> >> all. Not even when searching for "debian-multimedia". Every new debian
> >> user trying to verify the credibilitiy of debian-multimedia.org would
> >> have given up at this point for sure.
> >
> > Google is pretty darned ubiquitous, and has been for 8+ years.
> >
> > Putting "Debian play" in the FF/IW search bar auto-completes "debian
> > play encrypted dvd", and each of the first 5 links mentions d-mm.o.
>
> Yes, google (and all other search sites) quickly lead to d-m. But what
> does this really prove? We all know that google (and all other search
> sites) are far from immune against finding malware sites. Example:
> google "windows multimedia". On the first page of results, half the hits
> are sites with pretty dubious names. I wouldn't be surprised if some of
> them actually distributed malware.
>
> Linux is generally better protected against malware as Windows, but this
> is one vulnerability that is common to both: if you install anything
> from an untrusted repo, and if that repo had malware, you're toast.
>
> > "Mentioned" does *not* mean "endorsed". Never has, never will.
>
> > d-mm.o is not an official Debian site, so it's nor mentioned anywhere
> > except his personal page and the list archives.
>
> I understand that point of view. But it is a point of view that will
> make people stay away from d-m (and pretty much all other repos for that
> matter).
>
> It would help a lot if the key of d-m (package
> debian-multimedia-keyring) was in the debian repos, not just the d-m repos.
All the stuff at debian-multimedia can't be included in debian for
various reasons, mostly freedom I think, so you won't find it in debian
at all. It's made for debian but it isn't debian.
I started using d-mm.o from the reply to a question I posted in this
list many years ago and I suspect most people still find it today the
same way.
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