on package duplication between Debian and debian-multimedia

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi Fabian,

We are aware of this issue.

Christian Marillat, who owns the debian-multimedia.org domain (an
official service), declined to renew the domain name, despite Debian
offering to cover renewal and transfer costs.

As a result, the domain is now in a state called REDEMPTIONPERIOD,
before getting finally deleted.

The fact that debian-multimedia.org stills has an A record is apparently
a bug at the registar, that still exports a Host record for this name to
the .org zone. We got in touch with OVH, but we were not able to get
them to understand the issue. AFAIK, the content hosted on
http://debian-multimedia.org/ has no relation with Christian Marillat.

Lucas
 

On 23/05/13 at 11:46 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> o_O That's warez! On a site with Debian's name in it. DPL, please act!
> 
> 
> Von Samsung Mobile gesendet
> 
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Von: Jed Sharp <jedsharp at gmx.com> 
> Datum:  
> An: pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org 
> Betreff: on package duplication between Debian and debian-multimedia 
>  
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:37:49PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > As I don't want to be bothered, I don't intent to transfert the domain
> > name. I'll delete the DNS entries in six months and not renew the
> > domain name.
> 
> As it turned out, the debian-multimedia.org domain did get renewed, by 
> Christian Marillat on 26-Apr-2013, according to whois, although 
> www.debian-multimedia.org no longer has an A record.
> 
> Curiously though, http://debian-multimedia.org/ now serves a collection 
> of rather dubious-looking content which I doubt is doing Debian's 
> reputation a lot of good.  What did the Debian project ever do to 
> deserve this I wonder?