Re: Duplicate Packages from Debian archive in DMO

On Mar 21, 2012 2:26 AM, "Christian Marillat" <marillat@???> wrote:
>
> Andres Mejia <amejia004@???> writes:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > This has been a question that's been asked in the debian-devel mailing
> > list and among the Debian multimedia team recently. Why are packages
> > already in the Debian archive still being uploaded to DMO?
> >
> > For example, there is lame, x264, and xvidcore which have been
> > uploaded to the Debian archive, migrated to testing, and backported to
> > the stable release. Yet I see that at least lame and x264 are still
> > being updated in DMO. Is there any particular reason why?
>
> x264 isn't the same version libx264-122 here and -120 in Debian.
>
> Also I upload my packages more quickly than Debian. 3.99.0, 3.99.1
> 3.99.2 lame version have never been packaged by Debian.

Ok. Why not directly upload these packages to Debian then? You are still a
Debian developer right?

In case you didn't know, I'm part of the team packaging multimedia related
software for Debian. I'm also a DD. I help maintain lame, x264, and a list
of other packages in Debian.

I could use help in keeping lame and other packages up to date. I don't
have time to upload new releases right when they're released. Would you be
willing to help maintain packages in Debian?

> I'll certainly remove xvidcore.

That would be good, thanks.

> FYI each time a package enter Debian this package is removed from my
> repository, the latest is aegisub.

I presume you mean this is automated in some way. I see some source
packages, like lame, are renamed with a '-dmo' at the end.

Also, why not just upload these non-DMO specific packages directly to
Debian instead?

> Also some pakcages like vlc or xine are in my repository because Debian
> added a conflicts against libavutil51 from my repository.
>
> Christian
>

I looked at the packaging for vlc and xine-lib. I don't see a place where a
conflicts to any libav/ffmpeg libraries was added.

Speaking of libav/ffmpeg, the Debian archive has libav and not ffmpeg. I
see that DMO is the reverse, shipping ffmpeg instead of libav. This of
course resulted in many breakages between packages in Debian and packages
in DMO.

Is there any particular reason why DMO ships ffmpeg?

Also, please keep the CC line.

~ Andres