Bug#247337: [Fwd: lives_0.9.8.10-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED]
On Tue, April 29, 2008 11:55, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
>> I still don't understand the necessity to upload Lives in Debian.
>>
>> Without mjpegtools you can't encode in mpeg2. Same for transcode or
>> mencoder who doesn't exist in Debian even if you add a note saying
>> "Lives doesn't work, you need to add this package from this site"
>
> Anyone can add it from wherever he wants, or take a Debian package
> and rebuild it according their needs. This is a lot easier when you can
> just say apt-get source PACKAGE, without having to figure where else it
> is (if it's not in an official debian repository).
>
> Besides, someone can just use lives effects, then reencode the movie
> into whatever format he wants at the end of all the editing.
>
> > the
>> first user will certainly don't understand why Lives doesn't work
>> because this use will certainly never read the README.Debian.
>
> There's no README.Debian.
>
>> Christian
>
> Yours,
> Gürkan
>
LiVES will run just fine without mjpegtools, transcode and mencoder.
In fact, 3 years ago I made a version which had no non-free dependencies.
For example, the program is able to encode to ogg theora/vorbis without
any of the above dependencies.
If you ship the program without mjpegtools for example, and the user
selects the mjpegtools encoder, they will get an error message informing
them that they need to install mjpegtools to use that particular encoder.
Hence there is no need for a separate README file.
Regards,
Gabriel.
http://lives.sf.net
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