Bug#470236: RFP: flam3 -- Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames (fwd)

[Ian Weller <ianweller@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jan Lübbe wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 23:52 -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
> > Package name: flam3
>
> > Upstream author: Scott Draves <spot draves org>
>
> > Description: Flam3, or Fractal Flames, are algorithmically generated images and
> > animations. This is free software to render fractal flames as described on
> > http://flam3.com. Flam3-animate makes animations, and flam3-render makes still
> > images. Flam3-genome creates and manipulates genomes (parameter sets).
> >
> > I've already packaged this for Fedora and Scott is asking me to look for a
> > maintainer for Debian.  The specfile and patches used by Fedora are available
> > at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/flam3/ .
>
> It seems that flam3 is already in debian as a part of electricsheep:
> $ dpkg -L electricsheep | grep flam
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/flam3.pc
> /usr/lib/libflam3.a
> /usr/bin/flam3-render
> /usr/bin/flam3-convert
> /usr/bin/flam3-genome
> /usr/bin/flam3-animate
> /usr/share/man/man1/flam3-render.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/flam3-animate.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/flam3-genome.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/flam3-convert.1.gz
>
> Is this something different?
As far as I'm concerned they should be separate packages; however it's
not necessary. Scott told me that electricsheep was out of date anyway,
and those files that you listed there look out of date. -- ian