Uploading gtkpod?

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there, Matteo.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Matteo F. Vescovi <mfv.debian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Rogério Brito <rbrito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could anybody upload the new version of gtkpod that we have in the git
>> repository
>
> We (my sponsor and I) are waiting for other issues to be solved,
> like FTBFS on kBSD.
> That's the main reason why we didn't uplaoded the new package yet.

What are the issues that have been happening?

>> This seems to fix the lack of uploading videos to my ipod and seems to
>> be better than what we currently have in the repository, from the
>> little testing that I did.
>
> I know, but there's a discussion about splitting libatomicparsley library
> (that substituted mp4v2 in managing mp4 tags) to a separate package.

Yes, I've been following this, as I am also an interested part (see my
posts about getting handbrake in Debian).

> In that case, we will need some more time to integrate it in gtkpod packaging.

How much different from vanilla atomicparsley is this part that is
embedded in gtkpod? If it differs, then it should be renamed until the
patches are applied in atomicparsley.

>> Otherwise, users would have to grab packages from dmo and that comes
>> with all the potential drawbacks of collisions between dependencies
>> etc.
>
> "Would have" is a strong notation; maybe they "could decide" to grab packages
> from dmo, but surely they'll do so knowing the risks, I hope.

Are there any programs in Debian that allow one to upload any file in
an MP4 containers so that it is seen by an iPod? If not, then people
would have to get programs somewhere else and it would be good to have
those available in this next release.

>> BTW, Is there any specific reason why it isn't that maintained by the
>> pkg-multimedia team?
>
> Simply, because gtkpod is part of the pkg-gtkpod team, where you can even find
> almost all the libs used to manage iPod and stuff.

Yes, I saw that, but I don't get why one package that shares at least
two people with pkg-multimedia and is clearly related to multimedia
has to be maintained in a smaller, separate team.

Please, consider moving the repos to the pkg-multimedia umbrella.
Perhaps you can get some extra hands working on it by interested
parties, after all. :)


Regards,

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