gmerlin-avdecoder package

[Reinhard Tartler]

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fabrice <coutadeurf at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm willing to try to get gmerlin-avdecoder into Ubuntu (see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283213), as this is a mandatory
> dependency of latest openmovieditor.
>
> I saw that around June, some work has been done by Romain Beauxis (see
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2009-June/004576.html
> ) but no news since then, and the package is not yet in Debian.
>
> Any reason for that?

It seems that Romain got distracted by other stuff. I've imported his
packaging into our team git repository. From the first look I only see
that there is no ITP bug referenced and the quilt patch is not
documented.

> Should I just grab the debian-multimedia package, adapt the copyright
> file and upload to Ubuntu or should I wait the upload in Debian?

I'd rather recommend:

 - help finishing the package in debian so that it can be uploaded
   (read: file an itp bug, close it in debian changelog)
 - get it sponsored
   (read: wait for Romain to answer of get me or any other DD to sponsor
   the package for you)
 - if you want it faster, create an ubuntu branch in our git repository
   and maintain the ubuntu package there. Then you don't need to wait
   for uploads in debian but can upload straight away to ubuntu. We can
   merge any commits easily to the master branch

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4