Generous offer for debimedia / Help Wanted!

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:54:47 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>
> Given that lame, xvidcore and x264 are currently sitting in the NEW
> queue and there are chances they will get accepted into Debian, I guess
> nearly *all* the other packages that are listed on our wiki page can be
> provided by Debian as well (i.e. think of feature-enhanced gstreamer,
> ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, et al). As soon as the packages are in the
> official Debian archive, it is posible to provide backports for them via
> the official way, i.e. via backports.org.

True. The thing is, I don't expect that to happen soon, TBH. No, I don't
have solid information, this is just a feeling. In the mean time,
debimedia could be a) an interim solution until the backports actually
reach squeeze backports, and b) a staging repository for getting quicker
feedback.

> So what are the debimedia core packages and is there still a need for
> debimedia at all if the aforementioned packages get really accepted into
> the Debian archive?

I'd say let's begin with these packages. IIRC, adi mentioned the desire
to provide quicker backports of jack-ish packages as well, so this might
be a use-case as well.

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:15:40 (CET), Andres Mejia wrote:

>> Because we now these additional ressources, I think we can even
>> setup a pbuilder for building i386/amd64 packages. I imagine that with
>> this, we can also extend the archive to hold backports of "important"
>> multimedia packages for stable users. Well, you get the idea.
>
> Why not sbuild/wanna-build? I imagine we eventually want to include
> other arches to be hosted as well.

I don't have any experience with wanna-build, if you volunteer to set it
up, sure, that would be probably useful!

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