Re: libdvdcss in RPM Fusion ?
Hi,
On 05/09/2016 15:56, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Nicolas Chauvet
<kwizart(a)gmail.com
<mailto:kwizart@gmail.com>> wrote:
> As a package maintainer and end-user, I think it'd be valuable to have
> libdvdcss in RPM Fusion.
>
> If there is some concern about mirroring, though, perhaps we could
create a
> *third* repository for this sort of even more dubious package?
Which I guess
> at the moment would just be libdvdcss and anything that depends on
it. Then
> mirrors that don't / can't ship it simply don't mirror this
additional repo.
That reminds me how openh264 is dealt with in fedora.
Can anyone sum-up the existing methods used by various distro about
this issue ?
I did a little research.
Thanks for the research, this is much appreciated.
libdvdcss is Mageia Tainted repository, an official Mageia
repository
that hosts packages that they may infringe on patents and copyright laws
in some countries. E.g. most multimedia codecs are shipped in this
repository.
Mageia is backed up by a French non-profit organization (just like RPM
Fusion).
It is included in Arch Linux, in the extra repository (i.e. non core
packages).
libdvdcss is not included in Debian, Ubuntu and SUSE.
Debian users must use Debian Multimedia repository - which is not part
of the Debian project but it is maintained by Debian developers or
maintainers and therefore it seems similar to RPM Fusion.
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss.git/tree/debian
<https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss.git/tree/debian>
Debian multimedia also provides libdvd-pkg. `dpkg-reconfigure
libdvd-pkg` may be used to build and install libdvdcss* package(s).
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss-pkg.git/tree/debian
<https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/libdvdcss-pkg.git/tree/debi...
This package is also provided in Ubuntu 15.10+ and it must how their
users must install libdvdcss:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs>
Debian/Ubuntu uses can also use a VideoLAN repository to install libdvdcss:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
<http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html>
VideoLAN also hosts a repository for SuSE users which includes libdvdcss.
Libdvdcss is already packaged for Fedora in Remi's RPM repository and in
United RPMS.
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/24/remi/i386/repoview/libdvdcss.html
<http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/24/remi/i386/repoview/libdvdcss.html...
The problem with Remi's repo is it ships much more than just libdvdcss,
and at least some of the packages it ships will replace packages from
Fedora.
http://unitedrpms.sourceforge.net/x86_64/repoview/libdvdcss.html
<http://unitedrpms.sourceforge.net/x86_64/repoview/libdvdcss.html>
Is United RPMs here to stay or was that a temporary workaround while the
RPM Fusion infra was worked on ?
Sérgio, maybe ?
Summarizing, these are the methods we can implement:
1. ship libdvdcss in the free repository
2. ship libdvdcss in a newly created repository
3. ship a package that can build and install libdvdcss in the free
repository
I'd like to add :
3.5 : use RPM Fusion for SCM and build, but ship the binaries from
elsewhere (ala openh264 in Fedora, built in Fedora infra, but shipped
from Cisco)
4. don't ship libdvdcss and refer to another (non RPM Fusion
maintained) repository
Maybe we should ask various RPM Fusion mirror maintainers what they
think about and what is their preferred method to ship libdvdcss.
Bye,
Andrea
Regards,
Xavier