I too use this repo for years now and can't remember of any problems caused by this site and I guess this will propbably not change in the near or longer future
But during reading over, I think problems arise out of the fact that some debian developers now introduce "restricted" "multimedia"-packages wich they didnot even wanted to touch before in the past.
I remember one set of libraries (libwxgtk) where the debian-maintainer/developer just left parts out because
"nobody in debian uses that". Well this broke just such an outside multimedia package, but it seems noone at debian really cares for that. I expect similar problems coming up on other packages when they do now such "multimedia-stuff".S:!:
Those//some of them had been available more or less exclusively from debian-multimedia.org. Now there are coming up such multimedia-packages from different sources with the same naming but maybe some different content which might cause/has caused problems.
I myself donot blame debian-multimedia for that as they were the only ones active in that "multimedia-area for years. The debian-developers/maintainers didn't want to work on that or seeped it over.
Frankly spoken when I look through the conversation on this I had a little bit the impression on the side of some developer of: "
We are debian/borg resistance is . . ." Anyway this problem won't go away at all just with the renaming of the site at all. The problem of duplicate naming and different files will stay. I wished the debian developers had been shown more flexibility/common sense on that issue so it could have been solved :evil:
The onlything that will get solved on that are some kinky "license" and "intellectual property" issues which were raised on that discussion. Is debian now associated with the content-industry and takes over their methods :roll:
I think they sleeped it over for years first and run into problems with their new packages and turned to the dpl
"Daddy, daddy debian-multimedia is evil, they treat us badly . . ." :evil:
My 2 - 5 cents on that.
regards
Reiner