Initial packaging of handbrake for Debian (WIP)

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

On May 11 2012, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> > Dear Rogerio,
> >
> >> As I am a brand new dad, I want to transcode videos of my newborn son to
> >> formats that other family members can see and the first thought of mine
> >> was to do the job with handbrake.
> >
> > First of all, congratulations to you new-born child!
> 
> Yes, congratz!

Thank you very much. He has brought us a lot of joy (and some badly slept
nights), but I see him as a motivation for me to work harder.

> >> Would you be interested in the work that I have done so far? Please, keep
> >> in mind that it is *incomplete* and very *dirty*, but a start, at least. :)
> >
> > I have once - not that long ago, actually - myself tried to get it built
> > cleanly. But I failed and finally gave up for the reasons described in
> > this post and the one following it:
> > <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-February/024217.html>

Too bad that I missed that and duplicated your efforts. :(

> > I wish you better luck and patience. ;)

Do you have many changes that I don't have in the repo that I pushed to
alioth?

> > However, please feel free to open a GIT repo for it and share your work
> > with us!
> 
> Yes, feel free to push your work to the git repos.

I was looking at the patches that handbrake applies to the packages and,
apart from a few, a lot of them are just portability stuff to darwin/macosx
and some for cygwin, which I don't think that we care about that much.

The only ones that are functional changes are the ones regarding
libdvdnav/libdvdread.

We can drop some of the patches/parts of the packages that the handbrake
team releases with some repackaging (e.g., a get-orig-source script), if
people deem that to be important.

Nevertheless, some of those patches perhaps should be pushed to some
upstream projects (well, I see one patch against lame there...).

Anyway, I would love to have people review my changes and slaughter whatever
I have there, for a cleaner solution.

Perhaps in 2 or 3 iterations, with communication with handbrake's upstream,
we can get it in a more "distribution friendly" form.


Regards,

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