Bug#391830: libmpeg2-4-dev: libvo and corresponding headers are missing

[Michael Hanke]

Hi Loïc,

thanks for your reply.

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:43:28PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi Michael,
> 
>  Sorry for the delay to get back to you.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006, Michael Hanke wrote:
> > I'm currently packaging VXL:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390999
> 
>  Sam Hocevar had a look at VXL and saw that libvo is used in a small
>  numnber of places; he wasn't able to tell whether it would be easy or
>  not to do without it.  libvo could be shipped as a new binary package,
>  but it's usefulness would be dubious and this would require some work;
>  we'd recommend to check whether you can package VXL without it: perhaps
>  VXL's upstream would consider not depending on libvo?
> 
>  If it turns out that VXL strongly needs libvo, please ping this bug and
>  we'll work with upstream to properly ship it.
I will do as you suggested.

My packaging efforts wrt VXL are stalled at the moment. It turned out
the the fairly new 'insighttoolkit' package contains a significant
amount of VXL (as it contains other library code available
from different Debian packages: e.g. expat, gdc, niftiio, jpeg). It might be
enough for my purpose, because I only need VXL as a dependency for another
package. Although I think the proper way would be to package VXL upstream 
and make 'insighttoolkit' use it -- instead of the other way round.



Cheers,

Michael




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