On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Has this been discussed on debian-legal ?  (Adding mencoder, not adding
> > mplayer. I *know* everything about adding mplayer was discussed at its
> > time)
> 
> No, it hasn't.  Should it be discussed?
> 
> Removing MEncoder, at least for the moment, was a compromise with the
> ftpmasters.  It made their review of the MPlayer package and thus the
> decision whether to accept it or not considerably easier.

I'm not in terrible need for that.  I think it can wait.

Anyway, would be nice if Marillat's package versioning didn't override the
official packages.  This makes using his repository for mencoder impractical.

Christian, could you consider renaming mplayer to something else, so that
users of your repository do not necessarily need to use your version, neither
have to hack their apt preferences ?

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