Bug#469397: ITP: xbmc, boxee too?
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Andres,
>
> I'm glad you are working to package xbmc. I have recently been looking at
> Boxee ( http://boxee.tv/ ) which is based on it. The Boxee people always
> point out that they are an "Open Source project", from what I read on the
> wikipedia page
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee
>
> a lot of it is GPL but they also have some closed source code as well
> (mainly the library for communicating with their value add services).
>
> As part of packaging xbmc will you also consider packaging the DFSG-free
> parts of boxee? I guess they already have an apt repo for Ubuntu
>
> http://apt.boxee.tv/
>
> and some people have managed to get those debs working on lenny/sid
>
> http://forums.boxee.net/showthread.php?t=4197
> http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=21147
the packages work fine in debian and I guess they could be a good
source of clues on how to package xbmc (boxee is basically xbmc+a
skin+some plugins), but I think they are is far from obeying the
debian packaging policy.
Another big issue is that AFAIK xbmc only works on x86 and support for
other architectures is not a priority for upstream. Please corret me
if I'm wrong.
Can't wait to see xbmc in debian (maybe with a working powerpc port)
Cheers,
Emme
>
> I have not looked at them yet myself.
>
> I guess one thing that will determine this is how close to xbmc development
> boxee stays, and how quickly they will incorporate the good changes that
> are happening to make xbmc use system libs and more FHS sane.
>
> Please let me know if you want someone to test or review packages.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Matt Taggart
> taggart@debian.org
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