Bug#405224: ITP: vdr-plugin-epgsearch -- VDR Plugin that provides an extended schedules menu

[Thomas Schmidt]

Hi

* Christian Meder schrieb am 04.01.07, um 20:06 Uhr:
> > Well, as Tobias said allready, the plan was to add a few plugins to
> > the archive after the release of etch, but i guess another reason for
> > the missing ITP's is just a lack of time. (Most packages in the
> > svn-repository are in a releasable shape, but in a few cases there are
> > legal questions, especially with some packages in Tobias's private 
> > repository.)
> 
> Is there a list of the packages with possible legal issues somewhere ? 

Not really.

> > Another reason for being rather conservative with uploading too many 
> > new plugins may be that upstream is quite dead on a lot of plugins
> > and i do not really want to become the new upstream for these packages. 
> > (vdr-plugin-weather is a good example, it is allready in the archive, 
> > but upstream is dead and we spent quite some time to port the plugin 
> > from vdr 1.2.x to 1.4.x.) ;-)
> 
> But IMHO that's not a big problem per se. If a plugin can't be easily
> ported to a future release there's always the option of just dropping it
> >from the distribution. 

Yes, of course, you are right, in some cases there also might be a
functional alternative. (In case of the weather-plugin, we could easily 
it with the weatherng-plugin.) ;-)

> I'll shut up now and start on the packages which I mentioned in the other mail.

Ok, please go ahead, i think the list from Tobias contains really nice
plugins, and also your suggestions are very good (i guess we will need
epgsearch in the near future anyway, because vdradmin-am will soon
rely on it for autotimers, streamdev is also one of my favourites).
Another pretty important thing would be to have a "softdevice"-plugin
like xineliboutput or softdevice (the xine-plugin in the repository is
no candidate for the official archive as it needs a patched xine-lib
(see #227588, now allmoast 3 years old).

Btw: Timo: I still have not found time to test xineliboutput. :(


Regards,
Thomas

-- 
Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
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