On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@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-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org> >> wrote: >> > The branch, master has been created >> > at c4c77bca931e1dd7e0cce072985e694fcd5bb2e4 (commit) >> > >> > - Shortlog ------------------------------------------------------------ >> > commit c4c77bca931e1dd7e0cce072985e694fcd5bb2e4 >> > Author: Andres Mejia <amejia...@gmail.com> >> > Date: Sat Mar 17 19:29:40 2012 -0400 >> > >> > Create new package for libdvdcss-installer. >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > -- >> > libdvdcss-installer packaging >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pkg-multimedia-commits mailing list >> > pkg-multimedia-comm...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-commits >> >> 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 -- ~ Andres _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers