Dear Stefano,
thanks for taking care of this.
Please note that I am neither a DD nor a DM. But as a regular
contributor and one of the oldest members in this team, I feel
authorized to reply and present at least my own personal opinion. ;)
Am 18.03.2012 22:41, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:
I'd like to know if, in the opinion of the Debian Multimedia Team as a
whole, debian-multimedia.org is currently more harmful than useful to
the Debian Project and its users.
Yes, I think it's a lot more harmful than useful for several reasons:
1) the aforementioned incompatibilities and package name clashes with
official Debian packages
2) the interest conflict that became visible when d-m.o personell
tried to actively prevent the inclusion of full-enabled ffmpeg
packages into Debian, cf.
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592457#57>
3) the presence of these packages in d-m.o distracts the attention
from the official Debian archive; we were able to get e.g. transcode
and gpac into the official archive - for the benefit of all - without
that much of a hassle, which was not even tried by d-m.o personell in
the first place - interest conflict again, if you are asking me.
I believe that now, with the Debian Patent Policy available, we can
get at least half of the d-m.o packages into official Debian. I
believe that the current situation, in which d-m.o users get bound and
locked to this repository e.g. by means of their ffmpeg library
packages dependencies, could be connected to this fact - given how
much this could affect the click-statistics and thus income of d-m.o.
Note that I explicitly ask for a team position on this matter. I'm well
aware of Reinhard position, also thanks to his mail, but I'd like to
understand if his is the uniform view on the team, or if there are other
positions within the team.
What I have written above is certainly not *the team's position* but
only the first few points that came to my mind.
Best Regards,
Fabian
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