mplayer from hoary backported to warty

Philippe Landau lists at mailry.net
Sat Nov 20 05:13:43 UTC 2004


Alessandro Di Nicola wrote:
> Hello all,
> because of the bugs of mplayer-custom of Warty (it doesn't work at all on my
> K7 cpu), i have compiled the mplayer stuff (mplayer-k6, mplayer-586,
> ecc...) from Hoary multiverse repository and bringed to Warty.
excellent :-)

> I can test the package for some days and then upload somewhere... is
> there a way I can upload the packages to Warty's multiverse (mplayer-custom
> is REALLY bugged, it's near as useless for a lot of machines)?
> Or is there a repository where I can put them?
> Lots of people seems to ask for a good version of mplayer in Warty (and,
> of course, they wants to stay with a stable release, not go to Hoary).
> 
> I know multiverse/universe are unsupported but this is the reason for my
> post: I want (if I can, obviously) to support by myself the repositories. ;)
i would like to offer a public space for such a repository
if it does not duplicate existing efforts like
http://debian.udsu.ru/.1/debian-soft/marillat/
what do others think about such a repository for ubuntu ?

kind regards     philippe




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