hello! I would like to join the pkg-multimedia team

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> It seems your computer is somewhat outdated, I get 69 distinct packages.
>
>
> Is that Debian Testing?

No, unstable. Testing cannot build groovebasin, libgroove is too old :(

>
>>
>> > Would Debian approve of this?
>>
>> What do you mean approve of this?
>
>
> I mean - would Debian accept the upload of so many new packages?

Yes, of course. I unfortunately don't have time to work on these. I
can sponsor as time permits.

>
>>
>> Surely all the deps are free
>> software? If you mean bundling, that is very likely to be frowned
>> upon.
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>
> Yes they are all free software and I do not mean bundling.

Excellent.

>
>>
>> However, the more important issue is that several of the dependencies
>> have conflicting requirements. Possibly the requirements are too
>> strong, but I don't know.
>
>
> Hmm. I compiled the list of conflicts below. As a preliminary step I will
> submit a patch to each project in attempt to get them to update their
> dependencies to the latest.

Note that sometimes the problem is an outdated dependency earlier down
the chain (eg, broserify depends on an old version of through2 which
in turn depends on the old version of xtend). Maybe it is better if
they relaxed the dependencies instead.

>
> bl (~0.6.0)
> bl (~0.8.0)
>
> colors (0.5.x)
> colors (~0.6.0-1)
> colors (0.6.x)
> colors (0.x.x)
>
> debug (~0.7.2)
> debug (~0.8.0)
>
> iconv-lite (~0.2.11)
> iconv-lite (0.4.3)
>
> mime (~1.2.11)
> mime (1.2.5)
>
> nan (~0.3.0)
> nan (~0.6.0)
>
> readable-stream (~1.0.2)
> readable-stream (~1.0.24)
> readable-stream (~1.0.26)
> readable-stream (~1.0.26-4)
> readable-stream (1.0.27-1)
> readable-stream (~1.1.9)
>
> request (2.16.x)
> request (~2.34.0)
>
> underscore ()
> underscore (~1.4.4)
> underscore (~1.6.0)
>
> xtend (~2.1.1)
> xtend (~3.0.0)
> xtend (~3.0.0)
>

xtend seems to be the only one that might require extra work, as the
major number was bumped. The others I suspect are just too strict
dependencies.



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler