On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Go Linux wrote:
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On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Is vlc no longer installable, on Debian 6?
>
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I have vlc running on squeeze LTS.  Looks like it comes from Debian
multimedia packages maintainers
<pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> so you'll
likely have to add the http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main
repo to your sources list.

FYI:

"There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference?"

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F

just for the record, to sidestep eventual link-rot:

from DebianMultimedia/FAQ - Debian Wiki
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F>

| 2.5. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and
| 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference?

|    'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging
|    of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. In other
|    words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us.

|    'deb-multimedia.org' (aka 'dmo' or 'd-m.o', formerly
|    'debian-multimedia.org') is a site that offers a repository of
|    multimedia packages as well. That site is maintained by an
|    individual that is not part of this team.

| 2.5.1. freedom

|    A key difference between the 'deb-multimedia.org' and our team is
|    that we strive to maintain packages that are considered DFSG free
|    or get them to a state where they become DFSG free.  Moreover, we
|    aim at proper integration of programs into the Debian system. In
|    contrast to official Debian packages, many packages from
|    'deb-multimedia.org' are licensed under non-free terms that limit
|    their use and are not freely redistributable.

| 2.5.2. versioning

|    To distinguish between our official packages and packages from
|    d-m.o, d-m.o adds an 'epoch' to the version number and uses a
|    specific revision counter. This means that once you installed a
|    version from d-m.o, package management software will always
|    consider that version newer than the official package - even when
|    the official package is in actual fact a newer version (but
|    without the epoch).


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