[Hamara-devel] apt-add-repository

[shirish]

in-line :-

On 04/21/2015 05:20 AM, shirish wrote:

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>  See http://bugs.debian.org/783037

Surprise, Surprise, the maintainer answered in/around 30 minutes 
although sadly I got to see his reply now.

As shared by him, the kodi package (with the name change and some 
changes) is already in the ftp-master 'NEW' queue.

AFAIK  all the repos. within Debian would be frozen till 25th day/night 
till Jessie is not released. Also once the floodgates open there would 
be lot of lot of stuff in NEW that the ftp-masters would have to process 
so in that when kodi's number will come is not known.

What is good news for us is that the initial packaging is all done and 
hence the source packages are available to us or nearly available to us 
(shouldn't be much of a problem getting that version). The real problem 
would be though if we want a newer version than that as then we would 
have to patch it.

Also I do hope that people know that Debian's headers are different than 
Ubuntu's headers so you cannot and should not be mixing those together.  
While people have done it and survived I have also seen enough cases 
where it does blow up afterwards spectacularly as well.

>
>  Previously the app. had an embedded ffmpeg library while Debian has 
> libav.  While ffmpeg has again come into the mainline repo. now still 
> some issues might be remaining.  If the maintainer gets time I hope to 
> get a reply soonish :)

Au revoir ! :)

-- 
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org

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