Bug#87667: Still packaging gstreamer?
* Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> [20010617 21:11]:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:07:16PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Are you still working on packaging Gstreamer? If not, I'm interested in
> > taking it over.
>
> I just noticed that you're not yet an official maintainer. Do you need a
> sponsor for this package? I would like to see it in Debian.
>
Oops, sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
Yeah I'm still working on it. Took a while due to school distractions,
the complexity of this damn thing <g>, and me hacking on gstreamer
itself rather than doing the packaging. ;)
I put the debs up for download the other day:
http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/debian/
I've got some more changes and fixes going up soon. Haven't put the
latest debian control info into gst cvs yet either. Kind of hard to do
that since by the time I get it packaged these guys already have new
plugins written. ;) Should probably be maintaining main release and
cvs versions or something... will stabalize sometime I suppose.
There are some issues left. Like some weird lintian errors about PIC
code on just about every plugin. Tried to figure that out a couple
months ago with no luck. Something to do with a failure in a grep of
objdump output. Shared lib details a little too low level for me I'm
afraid. I should ask debian-mentors about it. Also a bunch of warnings
about .so links in non-dev packages. Will have to override that since
that's the way the gstreamer people want plugins to be (versioned
instead of just the .so).
The LAME plugin will have to be excluded from archives I guess. I also
need to ITP and package up mpeg2dec (for libmpeg2) so the mpeg2dec
plugin can depend on it. It's a small package so should be a quick job.
And I suppose I'll get yelled at for the plugin package explosion... not
sure how else to deal with this monster.
Yeah, I'm interested in a sponser. I've been slacking on getting
through the new maintainer queue. I really need to get that done soon.
Still need my key signed... will probably get that done at OLS.
-dave
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David I. Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu> | http://www.lehn.org/~dlehn/
Computer Engineering Graduate @ Virginia Tech in sunny Blacksburg, VA
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