Re: Debian multimedia repository
Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Yaro Kasear:
> On 08/01/2012 11:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 01/08/12 11:52 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote:
> >> On 08/01/2012 02:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >>> On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> >>>> Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wrote:
> >>>>> My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from
> >>>>> Debian Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if
> >>>>> one keeps using
> >>>>> Debian Multimedia there are rarely any problems.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now I got curious because that sound so general. What makes it
> >>>> very hard? In my experience installing and removing packages has
> >>>> always been
> >>>> easy in Debian.
> >>>
> >>> The versioning scheme of Deb Multimedia packages is meant to take
> >>> priority over the Debian proper packages, but this can create
> >>> problems under certain circumstances.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Andrei
> >>
> >> I haven't been using Debian as long as many on this list. Are
> >> failures with Debian-Multimedia that overtly common or are they
> >> rather circumstantial?
> >
> > It's not failures so much as conflicts. Certain Debian packages will
> > not upgrade because the requisite libraries have been replaced by
> > Debian-multimedia ones.
> >
> > It's a shame because there are some very nice tools in
> > Debian-multimedia that I'd love to be able to use but not at the
> > expense of core Debian packages.
>
> And how promptly do the Debian-Multimedia developers resolve these
> conflicts? Is this a big issue or just an occasional minor hiccup?
From what I see in the debian-multimedia discussion mailing list Christian
is quite responsive to bug reports.
But conflicts? I don´t know.
I´d suggest to subscribe to that mailinglist and ask there.
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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