[xine-user] Debian Packages for xine 0.5.1

[Siggi L. <si...@de...>]

Hi folks,

first of all: sorry for taking so long, but I've been quite busy these
weeks and xine 0.5.x didn't turn out to be an easy thing to package.

But on to the good news:

Xine 0.5.1-1 is uploaded now, but may take a week or so till it is finally
added to the (unstable) Debian archive.
In the meantime, I'd appreciate any testing, so hopefully lots of
packaging improvements make it into CVS before 0.5.2 is out...

So if you're impatient:

the packages are available in apt-gettable format on
http://people.debian.org/~siggi/xine-preview/.

You can use this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/%7Esiggi/ xine-preview/
deb-src http://people.debian.org/%7Esiggi/ xine-preview/

and you should be able to do

root@machine# apt-get update
root@machine# apt-get install xine-ui

Or even

user@machine$ fakeroot apt-get source --compile xine-ui
(which could even work on non-i386 architectures. And I'm very interested
 in those ports, of course ;-)

The packages do no longer enforce i686 optimizations, so if you have an
AMD (or even an i486, who knows ;), compiling the source packages might
give you increased performance on your machine, compared to the
precompiled binaries.

Please report any bugs or success stories to me, but feel free to post
them on xine-user if you think they're of general interest...

BTW: above entries in sources.list will become invalid as soon as the
     packages make it into unstable, so just throw them out when
     "apt-get update" starts complaining about them. You'll find current
     packages in the standard unstable archive, then!

Have fun!

        Siggi