[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] rc2 at the beginning of October

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:57:22PM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > 
> > > On 9/18/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > > But what is the alternative to libconfhelper-perl?  I'm sure there is
> > > > one.
> > > 
> > > Actually, official Debian packages (mplayer_1.0~rc1-16) have the
> > > install scripts rewritten to use shell & awk for the same
> > > functionality. But I didn't find a direct libconfhelper equivalent.
> > 
> > I wonder why are we trying to maintain a badly outdated debian directory ?
> > The official debian package has a much better and up-to-date one.
> 
> The advantages of the official one being what exactly?

 - being up-to-date regarding dependencies (think about X.org transition...)
 - don't depend on some perl helper which is not in debian anymore
 - tested to build on all debian supported arch
 - actively maintained
 - translated (package description and templates IIRC)
 - ...

> The problems I see with the official package is that it builds with a
> slew of different options and things like external libdvdread and no
> libdvdcss.  It also does things like install init scripts to enable RTC
> and set a default video output driver that I consider plain wrong.

The official package is certainly not perfect and probably not acceptable
as is for our repository. But still it's IMO in a much better shape than
ours. So I would much prefer seeing some improvements on official package
to get it acceptable instead of duplicating maintenance work.

Aurel