debian-multimedia.org considered harmful - redux

[Andres Mejia]

On Apr 13, 2012 7:35 PM, "Benjamin Drung" <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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

Christian went ahead and uploaded the devede package to dmo with an epoch
bump after devede was uploaded to Debian. This doesn't give me any
confidence that Christian is willing to work with the team at all (much
less properly file bug reports or do any kind of work within the Debian
infrastructure).

~ Andres
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