From: Sam Hocevar Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 03:22:24 +0200 To: Dariush Pietrzak , A Mennucc1 Cc: Jeroen van Wolffelaar Subject: MPlayer packages in Debian Hello. I have been looking at the MPlayer packages currently in the NEW queue. There seems to have been much progress in licence and copyright tracking, though there still are blurry areas. Do you think there is chance to convince upstream to add the GPL (or other licence) and copyright blurbs at the top of each source file? Also, now that they seem to have switched to SVN, generating the full changelog they advertise in some files should be trivial. I think you should at least include this with your package, but of course having it upstream would be nicer. I am also personally interested in getting MPlayer to dynamically link with or load the libraries I maintain upstream and/or in Debian (liba52, libmpeg2, libavcodec, libavformat, as well as libdvdcss that was removed from your tarball) to avoid code duplication and to avoid pathetic patches such as tremor/tremor.diff. Did you, as package maintainers, try to achieve that in any way? Regards, -- Sam.