On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:54:47 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote: >> >> Given that lame, xvidcore and x264 are currently sitting in the NEW >> queue and there are chances they will get accepted into Debian, I guess >> nearly *all* the other packages that are listed on our wiki page can be >> provided by Debian as well (i.e. think of feature-enhanced gstreamer, >> ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, et al). As soon as the packages are in the >> official Debian archive, it is posible to provide backports for them via >> the official way, i.e. via backports.org. > > True. The thing is, I don't expect that to happen soon, TBH. No, I don't > have solid information, this is just a feeling. In the mean time, > debimedia could be a) an interim solution until the backports actually > reach squeeze backports, and b) a staging repository for getting quicker > feedback. > >> So what are the debimedia core packages and is there still a need for >> debimedia at all if the aforementioned packages get really accepted into >> the Debian archive? > > I'd say let's begin with these packages. IIRC, adi mentioned the desire > to provide quicker backports of jack-ish packages as well, so this might > be a use-case as well. > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:15:40 (CET), Andres Mejia wrote: > >>> Because we now these additional ressources, I think we can even >>> setup a pbuilder for building i386/amd64 packages. I imagine that with >>> this, we can also extend the archive to hold backports of "important" >>> multimedia packages for stable users. Well, you get the idea. >> >> Why not sbuild/wanna-build? I imagine we eventually want to include >> other arches to be hosted as well. > > I don't have any experience with wanna-build, if you volunteer to set it > up, sure, that would be probably useful!
I had wanted to test setting up a miniature buildd network consisting of one machine that builds for 1386 and amd64. I've not done this before so I'll have to get back to you on this. > -- > 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 > -- Regards, Andres Mejia _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers