On 28/01/13 10:46 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
hi, some important packages are missing in the Debian official repositories cinelerra, avidemux the offical recommendations say: Please do also consider to entirely remove unofficial third-partyrepositories from your /etc/apt/sources.list file. The few more featuresadded to the packages provided there do often not compensate for the breakage they may cause. So, how am I supposed to get these packages. The only way I see is compilation, but is there any chance that they will be officially supported by Debian one day? best regards,
It's your choice. Debian-multimedia has some packages that I really like. The last time I installed them there were no conflicts (no official packages were uninstalled) and things seem to be working OK. At other times, I found it necessary to uninstall the unofficial packages due to conflicts.
You also could try generating your own packages for the programs you want. This can be a frustrating and time-consuming process the first time you try. There is quite a learning curve. However, if you can succeed in compiling against the official packages, you could ask for your package to be included in the official repositories.