Hi,<br><br><div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 20, 2007 10:13 AM, Stefan Potyra <<a href="mailto:stefan.potyra@informatik.uni-erlangen.de" target="_blank">stefan.potyra@informatik.uni-erlangen.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hm... I have heard that a universe source package could generate binaries for<br>both universe and multiverse, but I'm quite sure that it's not possible to<br>have a multiverse source package generate a main binary. So that would
<br>probably mean that the patent encumbered source would (once ffmpeg moves to<br>main) reside in main, not too sure if that's ok.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>There
are plenty of main source packages that can generate
universe/multiverse, but I believe you're right that it can't go the
other way around.
<br>Well the thing is afaik that there are no source changes currently
on the medibuntu package. It's soley a mangling of configure flags.<br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br>><br>> In order to avoid confusion and the necessity of using Replaces/Conflicts,<br>> a third virtual package binary that depends on either the free | non-free<br>> variant can also be generated.
<br><br></div>Sorry I don't understand this right now. What would that virtual package<br>solve?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>This
would allow all applications that depended upon ffmpeg to remain the
same and not need debian/control mangling. When ffmpeg was requested,
the free variant would be installed by default. If someone decided
that they needed items from the non free variant, it would conflict
with the free one but still satisfy ffmpeg (replacing the free one)
<br> </div><br>Regards,<br><br>Mario<br><font color="#888888"><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu" target="_blank"></a></font>