[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MPlayer package for Debian

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi,

On Monday, 16 January 2006 at 17:46, A Mennucc wrote:
> hi
> 
> I prepared three versions of 1.0pre7try2 , that can be accessed
> by adding the quoted lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
>  "deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge ./"
> contains the binaries that I usually prepare, for Debian 3.1
> a.k.a. sarge ; these do not contain all the upstream code, and in
> particular do not contain the libmpdvdkit (for fear of patent infringment)
> 
>  "deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/etch ./"
> the same, for Debian/etch . This I am trying to have into main Debian
> distribution.
> 
>  "deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge-non-dfsg ./"
> contains a binary version that is a compilation of the original
> tar.bz2  (and I may not upload it into Debian archives)

Thanks. I'll look at the new version shortly.

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:27:43AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > We'd be happy to recommend your packages to MPlayer users if you could
> > make a few additional changes, as outlined in
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt .
> 
> I read your document (actually, you sent me an email once about that).
> My package follows the guideline but for some differences; most important,
> I do not have two packages 'mplayer' and 'gmplayer' 
> (because in my 'mplayer' package , /usr/bin/gmplayer is just a symlink,
> so not building it would not save any disk space)

You're missing the point. My mplayer package does not depend on GTK2, only
mplayer-gui does, because it contains a *different* binary. I've explained
how to do this in the above document.

Regards,
R.

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