bits from the DPL: June 2012

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> Am 04.07.2012 05:24, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:
>
>> - I got quite some feedback about the debate with debian-multimedia.org
>>    I mentioned last month. My take away message from that feedback is
>>    that many users have no idea about the multimedia capabilities (and in
>>    particular of codecs availability) of recent Debian releases. We
>>    should probably invest some communication energies into that.
>
>
> I think that's addressed at us. How about the following paragraph in the
> release notes:
>
> "
> Debian wheezy comes with full-featured libav (formerly ffmpeg) libraries and
> frontends, including e.g. mplayer, mencoder, vlc and transcode. Additional
> codec support is provided e.g. through lame for MP3 audio encoding, xvidcore
> for MPEG-4 ASP video encoding, x264 for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding,
> vo-aacenc for AAC audio encoding and opencore-amr and vo-amrwbenc for
> Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrowband and Wideband encoding and decoding,
> respectively. For most use cases, installation of packages from third-party
> repositories should not be necessary anymore. The times of crippled
> multimedia support in Debian are finally over!
> "

To me, this reads great, but we really should check with leader@
(CC'ed) if such a public statement would bring Debian in a problematic
legal situation. This reminds me of the discussion we had with the css
installer package.

Stefano, according to your experience with the legal contacts and
ftp-master, do you think such a statement would be problematic?


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard