[MPlayer-users] Re: Recoring this *.ram to WAV with mplayer works while logged in but not from at.

[The Wanderer]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 18:08, Jeff Clagg wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:44:42AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>> 
>>> It's not your fault - it's the fault of the person who packages
>>> MPlayer for Debian, who is Christian Marillat IIRC. That doesn't
>>> change the fact, however.
>> 
>> I keep seeing this misinformation repeated. Christian Marillat does
>> not package mplayer for debian because there IS no mplayer package
>> in debian. It's only in his unofficial repo.
>> 
>> Now everyone who uses that repo will hate me for being pedantic,
>> but in my mind there is a huge difference. We can't refer to
>> everything as being "in debian" just because someone has made a
>> .deb for it.
> 
> To correct it further still, Christian's latest packages are very
> good and don't have any questionable patches anymore.

...but still create that invalid version number, apparently.

I had noticed the improvements (by proxy, I don't test it out myself),
but was under the impression that some MPlayer developers still thought
his packages were incorrectly handled at best. Was I incorrect?

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       The Wanderer

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