On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Clive McBarton
<clivemcbarton@web.de> wrote:
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Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> Adding debian-multimedia.org breaks a couple of things. Including vlc. I
>> don't know why they don't fix their repository.
>>
>> I'm curious if many people use debian-multimedia. Is it trustworthy?
>>
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> I have been using debian-multimedia with Debian stable for years without
> any problems. It is a vauluable and reliable service,
Valuable yes, since it provides useful video processing apps. I'm using
it also since recently. It probably is reliable, although for me it did
break vlc the moment I started using it.
> and is provided by a well-known Debian developer.
Good to know.
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.
I believe that the reason is, or was at the time, that some of the software was considered dodgy, in a gray area of legality in some jurisdictions. Something like VLC or mplayer that had DVDCSS, at the time when d-m was born, could have suffered the crushing weight of the legal arms of the RIAA and MPAA, or whoever, and honestly, Debian couldn't or wouldn't risk having that in the distro proper, so Christian built d-m. At least thats how I understood the story at the time...
With the information that Marillat is a Debian developer (and the
precise spelling of his name) I was actually able to go to the
developer's page on debian org, find him, and see a link to d-m. So in a
very roundabout way, d-m is actually endorsed by debian.org. But how
would anybody find out about this in a reasonable amount of time?
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