On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:41:39AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Tixy wrote: "Sounds like the sort of thing the third party repository at > deb-multimedia.org does...." > > Why do they do that? Simply to order their repository ahead of the others? > So why not just advise people to change sources.list? It seems like they don't > themselves make a statement on the subject.
Basically, people who use deb-multimedia.org want someone to package up fresh versions of the kinds of tools that get updated frequently with new features, while mostly maintaining the stability that comes with running Debian Stable. So deb-multimedia.org has audio and video editors, players, MythTV, encoders, decoders, transmogrifiers, and so forth. It's a little like backports, but outside of the Debian organization and not necessarily adhering to Debian rules. Conflicts are inevitable, but mostly minor, like what we have in this example. It's not like they're packaging new glibc or xorg, where a thousand packages can scream in agony. -dsr-