Bug#880644: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

[Matthias Klose]

On 03.11.2017 14:12, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:26:05 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
>> Package: src:libvideo-capture-v4l-perl
>> Version: 0.902-4
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module, but
>> it can use the Debian package instead.
>>
>> patch at
>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/344232947/libvideo-capture-v4l-perl_0.902-3ubuntu7_0.902-4ubuntu1.diff.gz
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> Interestingly, there is no libvideo-frequencies-perl package in
> Debian, just in Ubuntu.
> 
> On the CPAN Video::Frequencies seems to exist only as part of
> Video-Capture-V4l:
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Frequencies
> 
> Looking at the Ubuntu package at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libvideo-frequencies-perl_0.03-1ubuntu1.dsc
> this is a native package, it looks like some James A. Pattie created
> a native Debian package by taking Frequencies.pm from Video-Capture-V4l
> and updated it from a frequencies list in xawtv 3.88. Once in 2003.
> And no indication of an upstream source location. And somehow this
> ended up in Ubuntu.
> 
> So at a first glance it doesn't look to make a lot of sense to take
> this one-time third-party file from unknown origin and turn it into a
> package in Debian as well.
> If the original intention on the Ubuntu side was to have a newer
> frequencies list, we could consider to (add a patch to) update
> Frequencies.pm in libvideo-capture-v4l-perl from the Ubuntu package.

sorry for the noise, I agree, that Ubuntu should remove the delta.