Bug#710332: please consider uploading a git snapshot to experimental

[chrysn]

Package: performous
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: wishlist

while there is no post-0.7 release yet, the performous authors currently
recommend using git head instead of 0.7[1].

experimenting with duets, i downloaded the latest version (git 0828680)
and made a tarball out of it. the only packaging modification i had to
make was removing `docs/TODO.txt` from `debian/docs` as it was removed
upstream. being part of the boost1.53 transition, i built against that
(did not try current boost as well).

i'd like to suggest uploading a 0.7.0+git$DATE-1 version to
experimental. that way, the new input system and playlists are available
to curious users; on the other hand, this gets the current pre-release
version a little more coverage, which might help smoothing out some
rough edges pre-release.

as indicated by the bug version, this is just a wishlist item, a little
suggestion; at least it documents that building against the current
upstream state is painless.

[1] http://performous.org/blog


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages performous depends on:
ii  dpkg                            1.16.10
ii  libavcodec53                    6:0.8.7-1
ii  libavformat53                   6:0.8.7-1
ii  libavutil51                     6:0.8.7-1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.53.0       1.53.0-4
ii  libboost-program-options1.53.0  1.53.0-4
ii  libboost-regex1.53.0            1.53.0-4
ii  libboost-system1.53.0           1.53.0-4
ii  libboost-thread1.53.0           1.53.0-4
ii  libc6                           2.17-2
ii  libcairo2                       1.12.2-3
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]        8.0.5-4
ii  libglew1.7                      1.7.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.36.1-2build1
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a              2.36.2-1
ii  libjpeg8                        8d-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.32.5-5
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.32.5-5
ii  libpng12-0                      1.2.49-3
ii  libportaudio2                   19+svn20111121-1
ii  librsvg2-2                      2.36.4-2
ii  libsdl1.2debian                 1.2.15-5
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.2-5
ii  libswscale2                     6:0.8.7-1
ii  libxml++2.6-2                   2.34.2-1

performous recommends no packages.

performous suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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