[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] upgrading base packages from third party repositories

[From: Ralph Giles]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:

> I finally managed to get ogg playback on my device, thanks to
> N770-Freak and the "Getting started with multimedia"-document at
> maemo.org. Now, I could upload the packages I put together out there
> (e.g. on Garage), but I'm wondering how upgrading Nokia-installed
> packages should be done.

Cool! This is a gstreamer plugin that works with the existing audio 
player?

Can't you just provide a gstreamer-plugins-ogg package? Certainly you 
should send a patch to the plugins-base package maintainer, but the 
meantime that's the clean way to provide additional codecs.

 -r