[arch-dev-public] Mplayer: switching to svn

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 14:02:04 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009 19:19:37 schrieb Hugo Doria:
>> There is a problem with that? Should i change the name of the package
>> for mplayer-svn or can I keep "mplayer"?
>
> Nice to hear that; I hope this will eleminate all problems with smplayer ;-)
>
> Just keep it as mplayer. Good practice is to use svn export, generate a tar
> ball of the source and upload it into ftp/other/mplayer.

Agreed. Keep it at "mplayer".

Please make sure to put the tarballs in ftp/other, as this covers us
in terms of GPL compliance and makes it easier for users to rebuild
the same package via abs.


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