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and subject line Re: Bug#1150664: RFS: mintcam/0.2.1-1 [ITP] -- webcam
application for photo capture and video recording
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regarding RFS: mintcam/0.2.1-1 [ITP] -- webcam application for photo capture
and video recording
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Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mintcam":
* Package name : mintcam
Version : 0.2.1-1
Upstream contact : Alex Mirici <[email protected]>
* URL : https://github.com/jeaders/MintCam
* License : MIT
* Vcs : https://github.com/jeaders/MintCam.git
Section : graphics
The source builds the following binary packages:
mintcam - webcam application for photo capture and video recording
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/mintcam/
Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this command:
dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mintcam/mintcam_0.2.1-1.dsc
Changes since the last upload:
mintcam (0.2.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Initial Debian packaging (Closes: #1150659)
- built from the 0.2.1 upstream release, MIT licensed
- PySide6/cv2/numpy/pyzbar/Pillow installed into a per-user virtualenv
on first start; system dependencies are declared in Depends
- the reasoning is documented in debian/README.source
- Vcs fields added, debian/README.source explains the venv design
Three points I would rather raise myself than have discovered during review:
1. Why a virtualenv and not the Python modules from the archive: the app
needs
PySide6, opencv, numpy, pyzbar and Pillow. PySide6 alone is split into
many
packages in the archive and I did not want to vendor several hundred
megabytes of wheels. /usr/bin/mintcam creates a venv under
~/.local/share/mintcam/.venv on first start and pip installs the shipped
requirements.txt into it. Anything that must come from the archive is in
Depends: v4l-utils, ffmpeg, libxcb-cursor0, libzbar0, python3-venv,
python3-pip. The trade-off is that the first run needs the network and
takes
a minute. If the archive modules are preferred, I will switch.
2. Non-native 3.0 (quilt) with a separate orig tarball, arch: all, and the
only
build dependency is debhelper-compat (= 13).
3. This is my first Debian package, so I expect a round of corrections.
Regards,
Alex Mirici <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 12:36:35AM +0200, Hillied Mikerano wrote:
1. Why a virtualenv and not the Python modules from the archive: the app
needs
PySide6, opencv, numpy, pyzbar and Pillow. PySide6 alone is split into
many
packages in the archive and I did not want to vendor several hundred
megabytes of wheels. /usr/bin/mintcam creates a venv under
~/.local/share/mintcam/.venv on first start and pip installs the shipped
requirements.txt into it.
No.
Closing.
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