On 2012-07-10 18:28, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> Maybe Patrick Matthaei who maintains packages for MLT and Kdenlive
> can help.
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>>
>> thanks for the update IOhannes,
>>
>> I find it very sad to see how Debian is going: definitely the
>> multimedia part of it is not well curated and I think its quite
>> dangerous that Ubuntu relies uniquely on it, for instance every
>> time I've asked to update the frei0r package in Ubuntu I've been
>> sent to Debian, which is unresponsive and doesn't provides
>> facilities to test builds (unlike launchpad)
>>
>> any help to network on that front is highly appreciated

so lets get going.

while i'm not a "Debian Developer" nor official "Debian Maintainer",
i'm member of the pkg-multimedia-team (which i do find responsive and
helpful most of the times), doing a number of packages, mainly related
to Pd (well, it's me, no?), but also a number of other stuff
(flumotion, gmerlin, v4l2loopback, assimp)


the following might sound a bit harsh, but i cannot help thinking that
way (at least i try to keep it short :-)):

i have not been aware of your communication problems, but i figured,
that since you (jaromil) are listed as Co-maintainer of "frei0r" (and
"freej"), that someone who has a deep interest in those packages is
taking care of them.

given that you complain about the current state of those packages in
debian and at the same time are responsible for those packages, i
guess that you do not have the ressources available, to "properly"
maintain those packages. additionally, it seems that luca has not much
interest in keeping those packages uptodate.



so, i think it would be best, if those packages were (co-)maintained
by a more reactive group of people.
given that i do have a lot of positive experience with the
pkg-multimedia-team, i therefore suggest moving it there.

eventually i would volunteer to do the work.


if you agree, then the main obstacle i see is that the current
maintainer is still "luca", whom i don't know and don't have contact.

i would prefer if we could migrate maintainance of those packages
directly (without the debian-overhead of orphaning those packages and
than adopting them), which means that we will need consent from luca.

are you in contact with him?


the packages i'm thinking of are "frei0r" and eventually "freej" (but
i haven't followed it's recent evolution, so i have to admit that i
don't even know whether it is still active)


masdr
IOhannes