Bug#247337: [Fwd: lives_0.9.8.10-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED]
Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> writes:
>> I still don't understand the necessity to upload Lives in Debian.
>>
>> Without mjpegtools you can't encode in mpeg2. Same for transcode or
>> mencoder who doesn't exist in Debian even if you add a note saying
>> "Lives doesn't work, you need to add this package from this site"
>
> Anyone can add it from wherever he wants, or take a Debian package
> and rebuild it according their needs. This is a lot easier when you can
> just say apt-get source PACKAGE, without having to figure where else it
> is (if it's not in an official debian repository).
Debian isn't Gentoo.
> Besides, someone can just use lives effects, then reencode the movie
> into whatever format he wants at the end of all the editing.
>
>> the
>> first user will certainly don't understand why Lives doesn't work
>> because this use will certainly never read the README.Debian.
>
> There's no README.Debian.
Even better. How user should guess what is missing then ?
Christian
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