RFP so that d-m.o becomes useless

[Arto Jantunen]

Marco Mattiolo <marco.mattiolo at hotmail.it> writes:

> Hi all debian-multimedia-maintainers,
>   I wouldn't like to open a new bug if not strictly necessary, so I'm asking
> you informally before about this bug
> (devede RFP, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447276#29).
> Now we have mencoder in debian, so would it be possible to also have devede in
> repos?
>
> I've read some of your discussions about d-m.o and the problems it takes with
> package names and version numbers:
> I think that getting popular apps into official repos would prevent users from
> adding d-m.o to their sources.list .
>
> I know you are already working on getting avidemux* into repos (and I suspect
> that just maintaining
> the packages yet in debian requires huge amount of work, for which I thank you
> all),
> so probably it's just matter of time before getting popular multimedia
> applications in debian official repos.
> If so, please let us know.

I have been planning to request permission to join the team, with my
main focus in packages that exist in d-m.o but are not yet in the
official repository. I was planning on starting with devede, and then
checking if there is anything I can do to help with avidemux and after
that see if I can do anything about Mythtv (those three are the missing
ones out of what I need).

I simply haven't gotten around to writing a mail introducing myself to
the team and such...

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Arto Jantunen