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Remove unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository from your sources

126 pointsby mfinchamalmost 12 years ago

5 comments

arsalmost 12 years ago
You shouldn&#x27;t remove it, you should change it to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deb-multimedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deb-multimedia.org&#x2F;</a> .<p>It&#x27;s cute how debian thinks you should remove it completely (it sounds like they are insulted actually).<p>There are plenty of packages in deb-multimedia that are not in debian, like mythtv, avidemux, xbmc, cinelerra.<p>And some are simply better in deb-multimedia like mplayer which is compiled with many more formats then are available in the stock debian version.<p>Christian Marillat should get a huge amount of credit for keeping this running, even with all the flak he gets from debian sometimes.
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Nursiealmost 12 years ago
No, change unofficial debian-multimedia repo to deb-multimedia.<p>You probably had a reason to use debian-multimedia, its packages have a lot better codec support (amongst other things) than the mainline, so you probably still have a reason to use deb-multimedia. It&#x27;s the first thing I install on new debian systems and has been for years.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the debian guys decided to get pissy about it, as far as I can tell the guy is doing them and their users a huge favour.
jabikoalmost 12 years ago
It seems like deb(ian)-multimedia was asked to stop using &quot;debian&quot; as a part of the domain name [1]. But I don&#x27;t see why they decided to let the domain expire instead of setting up a redirect.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.alioth.debian.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;pkg-multimedia-maintainers&#x2F;2012-May&#x2F;thread.html#26678" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.alioth.debian.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;pkg-multimedia-main...</a>
gizmo686almost 12 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t apt verify the signature of packages before it installs them? If so, then the new domain owner shouldn&#x27;t be able to do anything malicious because (s)he cannot sign the packages.
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J_Darnleyalmost 12 years ago
So this means that Linux is just as bad as Windows when it comes to installing software from a random website.
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