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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 22:37, Dominique Dumont <dod@???> wrote:
> Hello
>
> With #668831, I had another instance of confusion between packages provided by
> Debian versus those provided by debian-multimedia: long story short, dmo xine
> packages are already multi-arch and debian xine packages are lagging behind.
> This is a transition issue, made more complex by the fact that transitioning
> packages come from 2 repos.
>
> Make no mistake: I'm really, really grateful for the work done by Christian to
> provide Debian-multimedia. I'm just trying to suggest an idea to improve how
> user can interact with both repositories.
>
> So, an issue with the current orgranisation is: once packages are installed,
> it's not obvious wether a package comes from dmo or vanilla debian. Sure,
> using apt-cache policy or reading /usr/doc will give a hint. But these are
> esasy to overlook when hunting for a bug. As I did.
>
> So here's the suggestion: all packages from debian-multimedia should have a
> '-dmo' suffix (with proper conflict and provides statement).
>
> This would have several benefits:
> - avoid confusion between vanilla debian and dmo when logging bugs
> (like this 668831)
> - would enable users to cherry-pick between the 2 repos without using apt-
> pinning tricks
> - would avoid using epoch to distinguish between 2 repos
> - hightlight the fact that dmo packages often have a different feature set
> compared to debian vanilla packages (i.e. set of codecs)
>
> Of course , this idea has 2 major drawbacks:
> - all dmo packages must be reworked by Christian
> - users will have to install a new set of packages.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
>
> All the best
as a user +1 on the proposal. It would also be easier for me as well.
I have also bungled couple of times filing bugs thinking they were
plain vanilla Debian packages rather than from -dmo. Having a -dmo
suffix would be nice/good.
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