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Bug#916333: ITP: dav1d -- fast and small AV1 video stream decoder



On 2020-07-02 10:11:03 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Dylan Aïssi (2020-07-02 09:29:51)
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:38:20 +0000 Vasyl Gello <vasek.gello@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There is a new upstream release 0.7.1 for a week or so.
> > > Can you please package it?
> > 
> > dav1d is in the NEW queue since 1,5 years. It was rejected after 1
> > year in the NEW queue and I still don't have news about the last
> > attempt. I am losing motivation for this package, I will probably
> > convert this ITP to RFP...
> 
> I guess the rejection is what you quoted in 
> https://bugs.debian.org/916333#25
> 
> Thanks, btw, for quoting like that to make conversations with ftpmasters 
> more transparent.  Much appreciated!
> 
> Did you try re-upload since the rejection?  If not, why not?
>
> If that was the only reason given by ftpmasters for rejecting, then I 
> would suggest to simply a) make sure that the licensing/patenting 
> situation as you understand it is explicitly laid out in 
> debian/copyright file, and then b) re-release the package.

I'm not the maintainer, but it is currently in NEW with d/changelog
fixed.

> When re-uploaded, I can suggest to try nudge ftpmasters by logging into 
> irc channel #debian-ftp and kindly request a review of the package.

I've done that repeatedly without any progress.

> If you haven't given up yet, then would you be interesting in 
> maintaining the package collaboratively?  I can offer to help if you 
> would be interested in doing so e.g. in the Multimedia team.

It's already maintained in the team:
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/dav1d

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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