[Python-apps-team] Bug#713017: Bug#693481: Processed: block 713017 with 693481

[Antoine Martin]

Note: upstream python-webm has not received a single update since March
2012, and it is now behind our in-tree copy which now supports lossless
compression.
I have created an upstream ticket with my patch:
https://code.google.com/p/python-webm/issues/detail?id=2

As for the hard-coded library names, this is unfortunate but was needed
to make it work on all the platforms we support (I can't remember for
sure, but I think "find_library" did not work on OSX for example). We
*could* use "find_library" once it has been proven to work everywhere
(takes time).

Please also note that in the upcoming xpra 0.10 release, the loading of
codecs has changed: we now use the __import__ construct to "soft load"
these dependencies. Your patches will need to get updated for that.

Also, in Debian speak this means "libwebp" should be a "Suggests" or at
most a "Recommends" rather than a hard dependency.