Control: tags -1 upstream fixed-upstream pending Control: notfound -1 17.0~alpha3+dfsg1-1
Hi Wookey, 2016-09-17 2:26 GMT+02:00 Wookey <woo...@debian.org>: > Package: kodi > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > kodi contains an embedded copy of libsquish: > in tools/depends/native/libsquish-native > > I have recently packaged libsquish, and it is now avilable in the archive: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsquish > > In doing this I examined all the embedded copies, checking them for > changes, and have merged all the extra features into the Debian > package. Thus it should be straighforward to start using the system > library instead of the embedded copy, without any API changes. > > The changes have also been sent upstream and will hopefully appear > in libsquish 1.14 at some point. > > The kodi version was forked around v1.10 and has some 1.13 features > backported as well as some entirely new functionality (BC4 and BC5 > compression format support, BGRA as well as RGBA testure source format > support, pkconfig support, independent pitch and cell size in > textures, and BlockMSE calculation). As all of these are included > as-is in this version. > > Debian policy > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles > say that embedded copies should not be used if the library is available in > Debian, and > https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies gives a bit more background. > > I am not familiar with the kodi build system, so have not attempted to > provide a patch as that should be much easier for you, but of course > I'll help if you need some. > > The full set of packages affected is: > - nvidia-texture-tools 1.7 (src/nvtt/squish) > - 0ad 1.7 (libraries/source/nvtt/src/src/nvtt/squish/) > - spring 1.10 (rts/lib/squish) > - openimageio 1.10+ (1.10+metric) (src/dds.imageio/squish) > - xbmc 1.10+ (1.10+metric/BC45) (lib/libsquish) > - kodi 1.10+ (1.10+metric/BC45) > (tools/depends/native/libsquish-native) > - mame 1.13+ (BC45) (3rdparty/bgfx/3rdparty/libsquish) > > Hope this is useful. Thank you for packaging libsquish. Kodi upstream dropped many embedded code copies recently including libsquish in 17.x. Experimental already has a kodi version without libsquish. I'll close this bug when Kodi 17.x enters unstable. Cheers, Balint _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers