debian-multimedia.org considered harmful - redux

[Benjamin Drung]

On Do, 2012-04-12 at 14:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> > Stefano, I think it's time to give you a clear answer, which is:
> 
> Hi Alessio et al.,
>   thank you for this answer and to Andres for having pointed me to past
> exchanges on this subject.
> 
> I've drafted a message that I'd like to send to Christian publicly
> Cc:-ing this list.

Thanks for your draft.

> I'd appreciate your feedback on it.

As stated by others, we should ask him to add a clear
statement/disclaimer on his homepage that his repository is not part of
Debian and that the donations are not targeting Debian. In case he don't
want to increase the cooperation with us, he should also make the
distinction between pkg-multimedia and d-m.o clear.

> In particular, I'd like to know what exactly you'd like to ask d-m.o to
> do: I've speculated a request as part of my point (1), but it'd be
> better if you could comment on that, to transform my speculation in
> something you approve of.

Point (1) is nicely phrased and I support it.

The agreement should (at least) cover all binary package that are also
available the official Debian archive.

I will be happy to work with him to get his changes to the packages into
Debian. He could be invited to join pkg-multimedia-maintainers and work
on the package inside Debian.

Bumping the epoch for binary packages that are available in Debian is a
no-go for us. He either needs to revert the epoch-bump changes or rename
the binary packages if he decides to go way (1).

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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