On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:47:00 (EDT), Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 01.08.2010 23:25, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: >> yes, there has been some movement behind the curtains, as you may have >> noticed, mencoder is now in debian. For this reason, I've also uploaded >> these three packages in the hope that they are processed soon. > > I have indeed seen that mencoder has been accepted into the archive and > this is certainly great news. On the other hand, compared with > heavy-weights as lame and xvid, I consider mencoder quite "harmless" > beacuse it uses Debian's system libavcodec which already has most of its > "critical" codecs disarmed. However, I'll keep my fingers crossed!
yeah, the technical details for mencoder was quite silly, but ftp-master insisted on finding a general solution for the whole mess. it seems this has been found now, at least that's how I understand it. >> Details will probably be given In the talk "How We Can Be the Silver >> Lining of the Cloud" by Eben Moglen on Wednesday. > > Judging from the abstract [1], this talk does not have too much to do > with multimedia codecs but deals with privacy in the "cloud". However, > as Felipe (congrats to your DD account!) already requested, please keep > your fellows on the other side of the curtain informed. ;) Sure! :-) >> All in all, very promising stuff is going on! > > Cool, feels good to read this sentence about Debian from you (given how > futile the mood was about one year ago when #522373 was filed.) Stefano explicitly asked me to not follow up on #522373, I guess they will want to answer it themselves. However, I personally don't expect a quick response there. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers