Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:27 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 15 nov 10, 09:21:54, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps I took it the wrong way, but I thought that the maintainer
> > could have been a bit more cooperative and sympathetic, given that
> > we're dealing with a repo which is widely used and practically
> > official, even though it technically isn't.
>
> While I tend to agree with you, it seems to me DDs are not very
> enthusiastic about work done outside the Debian Project. In most cases
> their skepticism is justified (it's not just a case of NIH[1]).
But that's exactly the point! Camaleón asked why someone wouldn't use
dmo, and I responded by pointing out that there will be inevitable
conflicts between packages from dmo and the official repos, and I noted
that DDs may just brush you off if you report such problems.
Celejar
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