[MPlayer-users] Re: Recoring this *.ram to WAV with mplayer works while logged in but not from at.

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 21:51, The Wanderer wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 18:08, Jeff Clagg wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:44:42AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >>
> >>>It's not your fault - it's the fault of the person who packages
> >>>MPlayer for Debian, who is Christian Marillat IIRC. That doesn't
> >>>change the fact, however.
> >>
> >>I keep seeing this misinformation repeated. Christian Marillat does
> >>not package mplayer for debian because there IS no mplayer package
> >>in debian. It's only in his unofficial repo.
> >>
> >>Now everyone who uses that repo will hate me for being pedantic,
> >>but in my mind there is a huge difference. We can't refer to
> >>everything as being "in debian" just because someone has made a
> >>.deb for it.
> >
> >To correct it further still, Christian's latest packages are very
> >good and don't have any questionable patches anymore.
> 
> ...but still create that invalid version number, apparently.

Not any more[1], AFAICT.

> I had noticed the improvements (by proxy, I don't test it out myself),
> but was under the impression that some MPlayer developers still thought
> his packages were incorrectly handled at best. Was I incorrect?

You haven't been incorrect until recently. Now[1] I see no reason to talk
badly about Christian's packages.

Regards,
R.

[1] As of 25.03.

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