On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:39:59PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> writes:
> > Read this:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ
> >
> > Also, just found this:
> > http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/06/debian-project-leader-stefano.html
>
> That's interesting --- the question is what would actually be missing or
> not working if I removed everything from dmo and replaced it with what's
> in Debian.

Don't know, depends. You could try it and see.
For example if you watch DVD's on your computer you will need
libdvdcss2 which isn't available in Debian.


> >> And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian?
> >
> > You can build them yourself using the build dependencies from Debian.
> > If you go that route then that is when you'll need the "deb-src" entries
> > in your sources list. There are some guides on the net:
>
> Are you saying that there are sources in Debian packages for which no
> binary packages exist?

oops, apologies. No that was a brain fart. Sorry, for some reason I was
thinking of needing a later package than the one available in Debian.

So if you want to compile a package which isn't available in Debian, you
still won't need a "deb-src" entry, you will only need to install any
xxx-dev packages, where xxx is any package required to satisfy the build
dependency.

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote:
> >
> > > And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian?
> >
> > You can build them yourself using the build dependencies from Debian.
> > If you go that route then that is when you'll need the "deb-src" entries
> > in your sources list. There are some guides on the net:
>
> Hmm, are you sure about this?

oops, apologies. No that was a brain fart. Sorry, for some reason I was
thinking of needing a later package than the one available in Debian.

> As far as I can tell the deb-src line is needed only for the actual
> source and for 'apt-get build-dep' to figure out the build dependencies
> (since they are only available in the source package.

Yeah, <sigh>, thanks for catching it.

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