On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:46:49PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > some important packages are missing in the Debian official repositories > cinelerra, avidemux > the offical recommendations say: > > Please do also consider to entirely remove unofficial third-party > repositories from your /etc/apt/sources.list file. The few more features > added to the packages provided there do often not compensate for the > breakage they may cause. > > So, how am I supposed to get these packages. The only way I see > is compilation, but is there any chance that they will be officially > supported by Debian one day? > I recommend you use the third-party deb-multimedia repository for those packages. I have them both installed from that repo and I've never had any problems. In fact, that repo has never given me any problems. Of course I'd prefer if I could get everything I want from Debian's main repo, but currently that's not possible for me.
One thing to watch for is ffmpeg vs libav. deb-multimedia supplies ffmpeg, while Debian's main repo supplies libav. Libav is a fork of ffmpeg, and it uses the ffmpeg name in one of its files. So the two cannot coexist on the same system. Here is some background on the politics of that fork, and the politics between Debian's multimedia team and the third-party deb-multimedia repo. This is how I see it. I'm sure others may have different opinions. A group of the ffmpeg developers attempted to "take over" from the ffmpeg project leader. Apparently they felt that was necessary for the good of the project. I can't confirm or deny that, because I don't know the history. The takeover essentially failed. Some time later, the same group (more or less) of developers forked ffmpeg to libav. FFmpeg continues to be developed by the original project leader (and maybe he has helpers, I don't know). Some/most/all (I'm not sure which) of those developers are also Debian developers on the Debian Multimedia team. They replaced ffmpeg with libav in debian main. The third-party deb-multimedia repo continues to supply ffmpeg. Shortly after the fork, there seemed to be renewed interest among the Debian developers in complaining and discrediting the deb-multimedia repo. My take on it is they don't like that he continues to support ffmpeg. They really want ffmpeg to wither away and die, but so far that doesn't seem to be happening. It's an unfortunate situation because it's a duplication of resources between the two projects. And in Debian, at least, it is not possible to use both libav and ffmpeg. And since they are separate projects now, each has some unique features that make it better in certain situations. It has also led to what looks to me like a propaganda campaign against the third-party deb-multimedia repo, which has a very good reputation for quality. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130128232927.ga2...@aurora.owens.net
