On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:32:57 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
Hello Dan, >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 It's not that simple. DMO also includes stuff that Debian won't due to licensing conflicts with DFSG. DMO doesn't have the same criteria as DFSG, so can include things Debian won't. Acroread and flashplayer, for example. There is also similar treatment of software that isn't entirely legal in certain jurisdictions. For example, libdvdcss. The reason DMO places a higher than Debian epoch on software versions is to avoid the need to set up pinning to prefer DMO over Debian. Of course, this can have unfortunate consequences. Especially if a user decides to remove DMO as a repo. The consequences aren't insurmountable, but one does need to be careful dealing with the changes from having DMO included in sources.list to a sources.list w/o DMO in it. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Every single one of us Devil Inside - INXS
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