Bug#513575: ITP: fswebcam -- Tiny and flexible webcam program
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:23 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
>> 2009/1/30 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
>>
>> > how many of those do we need? why this one in particular?
>>
>> I've been looking in Debian for a command line tool that takes
>> pictures from a USB video capture device that doesn't support MJPEG,
>> and couldn't find one (besides mplayer - but in a really hackish way);
>> fswebcam does (it accepts input in a number of formats).
> [snip list of fswebcam features]
>
> Thanks, that replies to my question :)
> Maybe that this kind of things ("why is this not already addressed by an
> existing package?") should be part of most ITPs...
>
Most complete ITPs just copy a draft of the long description verbatim.
The Developer's Reference recommends that the second paragraph of a
long description describe why a tool is preferable to others. [0]
It would certainly be nice if people expand on this even more when
they give ITPs (For instance, when I submitted an ITP for another
Scheme interpreter I described why it was preferred.)
Daniel
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc
--
Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>
Reply to: