Bug#880644: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:26:05 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Package: src:libvideo-capture-v4l-perl
> Version: 0.902-4
> Tags: patch
> 
> libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module, but
> it can use the Debian package instead.
> 
> patch at
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/344232947/libvideo-capture-v4l-perl_0.902-3ubuntu7_0.902-4ubuntu1.diff.gz

Thanks for the bug report.

Interestingly, there is no libvideo-frequencies-perl package in
Debian, just in Ubuntu.

On the CPAN Video::Frequencies seems to exist only as part of
Video-Capture-V4l:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Frequencies

Looking at the Ubuntu package at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libvideo-frequencies-perl_0.03-1ubuntu1.dsc
this is a native package, it looks like some James A. Pattie created
a native Debian package by taking Frequencies.pm from Video-Capture-V4l
and updated it from a frequencies list in xawtv 3.88. Once in 2003.
And no indication of an upstream source location. And somehow this
ended up in Ubuntu.

So at a first glance it doesn't look to make a lot of sense to take
this one-time third-party file from unknown origin and turn it into a
package in Debian as well.
If the original intention on the Ubuntu side was to have a newer
frequencies list, we could consider to (add a patch to) update
Frequencies.pm in libvideo-capture-v4l-perl from the Ubuntu package.


Cheers,
gregor

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