There have been attempts to coordinate package maintenance with dmo, but the maintainer of dmo has consistently expressed no interest in coordinating package maintenance with anyone in the team.Ģ.7. There is no such coordination with the team and anyone in dmo. Does the team coordinate package maintenance with dmo?

This means that once you installed a version from d-m.o, package management software will always consider that version newer than the official package - even when the official package is in actual fact a newer version (but without the epoch).Ģ.6. To distinguish between our official packages and packages from d-m.o, d-m.o adds an 'epoch' to the version number and uses a specific revision counter. In contrast to official Debian packages, many packages from '' are licensed under non-free terms that limit their use and are not freely redistributable. Moreover, we aim at proper integration of programs into the Debian system. That site is maintained by an individual that is not part of this team.Ī key difference between the '' and our team is that we strive to maintain packages that are considered DFSG free or get them to a state where they become DFSG free. '' (aka 'dmo' or 'd-m.o', formerly '') is a site that offers a repository of multimedia packages as well.

In other words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us. 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and ''.

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