Bug#736217: ITP: gstreamer-vaapi -- VA-API plugins for GStreamer

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com>]

On 22.01.2014 11:31, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 21.01.2014 09:03, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>>> Hi Timo,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>> On 21.01.2014 08:25, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>>>>> Package: wnpp
>>>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>>> Owner: Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> * Package name    : gstreamer-vaapi
>>>>>   Version         : 0.5.7
>>>>>   Upstream Author : Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
>>>>> * URL             : http://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi
>>>>> * License         : LGPL-2.1+
>>>>>   Programming Lang: C
>>>>>   Description     : VA-API plugins for GStreamer
>>>>>
>>>>> gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that
>>>>> allow hardware accelerated video decoding, encoding and processing through
>>>>> VA-API.
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I've had it packaged in
>>>>
>>>> git://git.debian.org/git/users/tjaalton-guest/gstreamer-vaapi.git
>>>>
>>>> feel free to reuse whatever you need.
>>>
>>> Thanks, that saves me quite a bit of work compared to basing off of
>>> the current package in Ubuntu!
>>
>> yeah that one is ancient.. earlier 0.5.x didn't build against gst1.0/1.2
>> so it got stuck at 0.3.6. Updating it to 0.5.7 is still a WIP
> 
> I've got 0.5.7 built in a clean pbuilder sid chroot (and fixed a bunch
> of minor issues raised by lintian during the process). Are there any
> issues blocking upload (perhaps you'd like some time to review my
> changes?), or can I go ahead and upload the package now?

looks fine, go ahead!

>>> If it interests you, would you like to be the maintainer of
>>> gstreamer-vaapi (and move the packaging over to collab-maint while
>>> we're at it)? I'd be glad to just sponsor what you have; it spares me
>>> additional work and you've already done great work on the package
>>> anyways.
>>
>> Works for me, pushed the branches there now and renamed them to match
>> the "default" names (master, upstream).
> 
> Thanks, I've gone ahead and pushed my changes there. I've also added
> pkg-gstreamer-devel and myself to uploaders, but feel free to remove
> them if you don't approve.

nah it's great


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