feedback for libdvdcss-pkg

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Sat Sep 22 03:00:48 UTC 2012


Hi Fabian,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:33:02 Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 20.09.2012 13:41, schrieb Dmitry Smirnov:
> > "due to fears of running afoul of DMCA-style laws" etc.
> 
> That sounds better at least.

I re-phrased to 
"libdvdcss is a free software but Debian is not shipping it
 due to fears of running afoul of DMCA-style laws."

Thank you for your suggestion.


> I would not call it misuse, actually it's quite common practice. Look
> at both files, you will see that their content is the same. NEWS is
> just ChangeLog without the VCS noise.

You're certainly right -- somehow I misunderstood on first reading, sorry.
Indeed upstream NEWS file should be installed as changelog.
I updated the package. Thank you.

Also I updated your symbol-visibility.patch from upstream trunk as you 
advised.

Thank you for for sharing your ideas.


> However, this is not our main problem at the moment. ;)
 
True. Moving on. :)


All the best,
Dmitry.



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