libdvdcss-installer - Package to install libdvdcss

[Andres Mejia]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 17.03.2012, 19:42 -0400 schrieb Andres Mejia:
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM,  <ceros-guest at users.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>> > The branch, master has been created
>> >        at  c4c77bca931e1dd7e0cce072985e694fcd5bb2e4 (commit)
>> >
>> > - Shortlog ------------------------------------------------------------
>> > commit c4c77bca931e1dd7e0cce072985e694fcd5bb2e4
>> > Author: Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com>
>> > Date:   Sat Mar 17 19:29:40 2012 -0400
>> >
>> >    Create new package for libdvdcss-installer.
>> >
>> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > --
>> > libdvdcss-installer packaging
>> >
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>>
>> Ok, here was my idea of an installer for libdvdcss. This is it's very
>> own package that can be installed via apt (i.e. apt-get install
>> libdvdcss-installer). Through maintainer scripts, it can install,
>> remove, and purge libdvdcss whenever the installer is installed,
>> removed, and purged. I got this idea from a package I use to maintain
>> long ago (nvidia-cg-toolkit) which works in similar fashion.
>>
>> My idea was to upload this to Debian contrib. If it failed to get
>> accepted still, the script itself can be installed and used along with
>> libdvdread instead. Maintainer scripts could be setup for libdvdread
>> to automatically install/remove/purge libdvdcss, though the issue here
>> is that libdvdread is in main. libdvdread must not depend on libdvdcss
>> being available at all.
>>
>> libdvdcss-installer can be found at
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss-installer.git
>>
>> Any comments/concerns?
>
> Are we allowed to distribute the source code of libdvdcss? Then we could
> put the source code into a binary package and build it on installation.
> I would prefer a builder instead of distributing a downloader + builder.

It would help to know why it was rejected in the first place. See [1].

Did anyone ever get that email that Joerg mentioned in the reject notification?

1. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-July/020544.html

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~ Andres