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Bug#469397: ITP: xbmc -- XBox Media Center Linux Port



Dear Andres,


Am Montag, den 23.03.2009, 13:07 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 02:14 -0500 schrieb Andres Mejia:
> > Just thought I mention what needs to be done before xbmc can even be 
> > considered for upload to Debian (and just about any distro for that matter).
> > 
> > So far, I've encountered two issues that need to be resolved before xbmc can 
> > be uploaded.
> > 
> > 1. xbmc needs to use system libraries instead of the internal libraries 
> > provided in the source.
> > 2. xbmc needs to follow the requirements of the FHS.
> > 
> > I am currently working on the first issue. For anyone interested, you can 
> > checkout the changes I've implemented in their SVN repo under the 
> > external-libraries-support branch. I merge fairly frequently with the 
> > linuxport branch so that the only difference between the two branches is that 
> > one supports the use of external libraries.
> > 
> > Any help is welcome. For anyone interested, here's a good place to start
> > => http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Linux
> > 
> > Here's a place for any feedback on the external libraries support
> > => http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/5416
> 
> Thank you very much for your work in getting XBMC packaged for Debian.
> 
> Could you give a status update on your work? And even better could you
> provide packages in a private repository for testing?
> 
> As you probably know there are also packages for Ubuntu available [1].
> Do you guys work together to save work?

As you probably know XBMC 9.04 (Babylon) Beta 1 was released some days
ago [3].

XBMC could probably attract more users and get more testing, if it is
packaged for Debian.

Could you give us a status update, please?


Thanks a lot,

Paul

> [1] http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33327
> [2] https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+archive/ppa
[3] http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/04/23/xbmc-904-babylon-beta-1-released/

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