Bug#1108138: ITP: widevine-installer -- installer script for Widevine on arm64 systems

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

NoisyCoil <noisycoil@tutanota.com> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: NoisyCoil <noisycoil@tutanota.com>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-arm@lists.debian.org, noisycoil@tutanota.com
> User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: arm64
>
> * Package name    : widevine-installer
>   Version         : 0
>   Upstream Contact: The Asahi Linux Contributors
> * URL             : https://github.com/AsahiLinux/widevine-installer
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: Shell, Python
>   Description     : installer script for Widevine on arm64 systems
>
> This package provides an installer for Widevine, Google's proprietary
> digital rights management (DRM) library, on arm64 systems. Widevine
> is used by media platforms like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.
> to reproduce copyrighted content on browsers and other applications.
> This package only supports the Firefox and Chromium browsers.
> .
> After installing this package, you must run the widevine-installer
> script as root. The script will download the library from ChromeOS'
> repositories, unpack it, patch it (if necessary) and install it
> together with the relevant configuration files.

Do you also plan to patch glibc, or is this no longer required for the
Widevine versions downloaded by this installer?

Ref
https://github.com/xbmc/inputstream.adaptive/wiki/Widevine-ARM64-support


Bjørn