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Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources
Debian warns on its blog: "The unofficial third party repository Debian Multimedia stopped using the domain debian-multimedia.org some months ago. The domain expired and it is now registered again by someone unknown to Debian. (If we're wrong on this point, please sent us an email so we can take over the domain! This means that the repository is no longer safe to use, and you should remove the related entries from your source.list file.)"
Update: 06/14 02:58 GMT by U L : If you're wondering where it went, it moved to deb-multimedia.org, after the DPL (at the time) asked the maintainer to stop using the Debian name.
(a) Because that's intruding where package management doesn't belong, and
(b) into which package would you add this patch?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Please correct me if I'm wrong for this specific one; but the official repositories and many of the 3rd party ones are signed, and you mark the corresponding public key as trusted when you add the repo. Unless the new owner got the domain name and the signing key, their ability to fuck with you is pretty much limited to breaking dependencies in assorted creative ways. Unless you speed through those annoying warnings about crypto issues, in which case you are executing god-knows-what as root. So don't do that.
If you're going to karma whore, you should at least reference the OP.
If you can see debian-multimedia.org lines in output, you might want to change all the lines including it to use deb-multimedia.org instead.
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