-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pierre HABOUZIT ha scritto: > that bug would almost have deserved an "important" severity as every > Marillat packages user won't see mplayer is in debian now.
hmmm when the user adds another repository to the sources.list , s/he does that on own responsibility. It is up to them to see that they are indeed installing from Debian or from another repository. At the same time , I cannot and dont want to start an epoch war with Marillat to decide what package has the priority. Why ? First of all, because it is meaningless. Did you really think about it? what benefit would an epoch really do ? suppose I bump the epoch to 2 , and upload 2:1.0~rc1-4 , so most people will automatically install my package; then mplayer gets into etch ; then in January07 etch is released ; then in April07 MPlayer releases 1.0-at ; so Marillat has to release 2:1.0-at ( to have it newer than 1:1.0-rc1 that is his current version AFAIK).... and this is again newer than 2:1.0~rc1-4 . So what did anybody gain by my epoch change? a 4 months usage of the Debian package ? The right way to choose between Debian and Marillat version is to use APT pinning ; I will write a FAQ in the future and add an explanation to that (and other stuff). And moreover , I hate epochs :-> a. ps: > I know that mplayer is not "official" but if you want users to use it, > you'll have to ensure an upgrade path for that very common unofficial > package. that's the least you can do. I am not worried. Marillat's packages are high quality. My objective is not that "people would use my package instead of Marillat's" . My objective is that - - people will find a convenient package of mplayer into Debian itself - - Debian can endorse its package to be at the usual high standard of freeness (i.e. no patents and no license problems at the best of our current knowledge) - - ) we may add other sw to Debian that uses mplayer (e.g. freevo). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFR9O59B/tjjP8QKQRAuvaAJ91k7WoeYJOO9Tckz87Q2J09/LhgQCeOLoe c4kqtQtMrfryOqx7eBlSvXw= =lVQn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
