Debian's mediatomb package is in bad shape

[Arnout Engelen]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:58:20PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 06:15 AM, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:29:03AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> I notice that the mediatomb package in debian is in a rather bad
> >> shape. [1] currently lists 3 RC and 5 important bugs.  Moreover, there
> >> hasn't been a new upstream release for over a year.
> >>
> >> I know that I did the last upload of the package, but since I don't
> >> really use it, getting the package in shape is not really my
> >> priority. For the team, I ask you what to do about it. Do we have
> >> volunteers to get it in shape or shall we rather orphan/remove it from
> >> Debian?
> > Afaics mediatomb is currently the only UPnP/DLNA server in Debian with 
> > transcoding capabilities.
> >
> > I think we should either try to keep mediatomb or package another similar 
> > piece of software - I don't know which are any good though :).
> >
> > I have an interest in this kind of software (as I recently got a TV with DLNA
> > capabilities ;) ), so I might be able to help out here and there, but I don't
> > have much experience with it yet.
>
> Arnout, since you have an interest, would you be willing to maintain
> this with me under the banner of pkg-multimedia? (AFAIK, the requirement
> is that 2 members of the team agree to maintain it, are named as
> Uploaders in debian/control, and the package relates to multimedia). 
> Unfortunately, I don't use the package, but have an interest in it as
> far as there appear to be quite a few users in Ubuntu using it.

I'm wondering whether we perhaps should package ps3mediaserver instead. I
haven't looked deeply into it, but it seems mediatomb doesn't support 
fastforward/back and ps3mediaserver does - that's a pretty relevant feature
imho :).

Any of you experienced with this? 

(there was already some work on that but it seems that got abandoned due to 
lack of upstream response... 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551645)


Kind regards,

Arnout