Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-04-07 Thread A Mennucc
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:56 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Well, there are two issues here, one is why mplayer is not in debian. Supposedly it was because the legal situation was not clear and that made it dangerous and maybe illegal for us to distribute it. I wonder why ubu

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:56 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, there are two issues here, one is why mplayer is not in debian. > Supposedly it was because the legal situation was not clear and that made it > dangerous and maybe illegal for us to distribute it. I wonder why ubuntu does > not have thi

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:30:03PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Ok, so why doesn't mplayer get's accepted in debian now ? > > I have no idea, nor is it my responsibility to know. I can only say that > your claims so far are al

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Ok, so why doesn't mplayer get's accepted in debian now ? I have no idea, nor is it my responsibility to know. I can only say that your claims so far are all either extremely implausible, or demonstrably false. -- - mdz -- To

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:11:35PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:50:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I don't know who rejected mplayer, so I can't answer this directly, but I > > > am > > > confi

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:50:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I don't know who rejected mplayer, so I can't answer this directly, but I am > > confident that "many" is exagerrated FUD regardless. > > elmo did, i think. Whatever

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Yeah, ok, but mplayer was rejected, and is now in many-year-NEW-limbo, for > > licencing reasons, which i believe are the same for ubuntu and debian, maybe > > worse

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Yeah, ok, but mplayer was rejected, and is now in many-year-NEW-limbo, for > licencing reasons, which i believe are the same for ubuntu and debian, maybe > worse for ubuntu evem. No, Ubuntu has quite different licensing criteria than

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:53:38AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Like said, since ubuntu has mplayer, there is really no reason to stale it > > for > > debian now. > > I cannot speak for anyone regarding the specific case of mpl

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Like said, since ubuntu has mplayer, there is really no reason to stale it for > debian now. I cannot speak for anyone regarding the specific case of mplayer, but the above is not a valid inference for any package. Ubuntu and Debian

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:26:27AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > > you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries > > > of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly rep

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread A Mennucc
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries > > of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository > > > > http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge > > > > w

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries > of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository > > http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge > > with special thanks to David Moreno Garza for the sparc binary > and Simon

mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread A Mennucc
you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge with special thanks to David Moreno Garza for the sparc binary and Simon McVittie for powerpc a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmys

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC

2005-03-11 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:41:48AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > hi everybody > > thanks to help of many people > (both on debian-legal , debian-devel , and privately), > I have prepared a new debugged improved version of mplayer > for the Debian archive : namely version 1.0pre6-4 > > Simon McVitt

mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC

2005-03-10 Thread A Mennucc
hi everybody thanks to help of many people (both on debian-legal , debian-devel , and privately), I have prepared a new debugged improved version of mplayer for the Debian archive : namely version 1.0pre6-4 Simon McVittie , in particular, has tried my packaging in powerpc : so he has provided