From: A Mennucc Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:49 +0200 To: Sam Hocevar Cc: Dariush Pietrzak , Jeroen van Wolffelaar Subject: Re: MPlayer packages in Debian On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:22:24AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > 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? we are doing (sorta) this currently. I am working with Diego Biurrun. > Also, now that > they seem to have switched to SVN, generating the full changelog they 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. (please elaborate) > 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. It is a declared goal of MPlayer people not to dynamically link. Dyn. code is slower, and the goal of mplayer is to be fast. > Did you, as package > maintainers, try to achieve that in any way? no a. ps: sorry for the late reply -- Andrea Mennucc