Re: [SCM] mplayer/master: really no longer build mplayer-gui, Closes: #612473

2011-03-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
really no longer build mplayer-gui, Closes: #612473 the gui uses private, internal symbols of swscale Shouldn't at least an alternative package (say, kmplayer) get pulled in? Or shouldn't some package Replace: mplayer-gui? I am afraid that the obsolete mplayer-gui package keeps

Bug#611791: [SRM] Approval for libmms_0.6-1squeeze1

2011-03-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 21.02.2011 13:58, schrieb Adam D. Barratt: Yes, the fix would need to be applied to unstable first, so we can discover if any further issues occur. libmms 0.6.2-2 has just entered testing without any complaints. - Fabian ___

Bug#616468: flac: metaflac -- Add short optios for cimmand line use (--list = -l)

2011-03-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.03.2011 19:19, schrieb Jari Aalto: Please add short options for typical command line use, like Sorry, but we are not going to divert from upstream WRT user interface. We want to avoid people ending up writing scripts that only work on Debian with flac package version (= x.y) but on no

Re: Bug#616468: flac: metaflac -- Add short optios for cimmand line use (--list = -l)

2011-03-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 07.03.2011 11:51, schrieb Alessio Treglia: A 'wontfix' tag would be appropriate. Feel free... ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: request for supporters: mkvtoolnix

2011-03-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.03.2011 11:07, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: would anyone support having mkvtoolnix in pkg-multimedia? It currently has Christian Mariallat in the Maintainer field, and I think the package would be better served if we had it in pkg-multimedia. Before actually proposing this, I'm asking for a

Re: Bug#611791: [SRM] Approval for libmms_0.6-1squeeze1

2011-03-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 10.03.2011 15:11, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: libmms 0.6.2-2 has just entered testing without any complaints. Please go ahead with the stable upload. the package is already prepared in the stable branch of our libmms git repo. Please upload if you find some time. ;) Ping

Bug#611791: [SRM] Approval for libmms_0.6-1squeeze1

2011-03-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.03.2011 07:21, schrieb Adam D. Barratt: Unfortunately the upload hit p-u-NEW after things had been frozen for 6.0.1; it will therefore not be processed until after 6.0.1 has been released and will be included in 6.0.2. Oh, come on. Isn't it possible to still get this into 6.0.1? It's

Bug#618679: ffmpeg (armel): debian/rules /bin/cp of doxy documentation fail with: Argument list too long

2011-03-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.03.2011 15:30, schrieb Gal Shalif: + [ ! -d doxy ] || tar -C doxy -cf - html | tar -C debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-doc -xf - He, couldn't we simply copy the *directory* doxy/html (with cp -r) instead of its *contents* doxy/html/* and be done with it? - Fabian

Re: ffmpeg-4:0.6.1-5 and jack support

2011-03-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.03.2011 14:59, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: please file a wishlist report against libavdevice52. Let's just enable it in git, or not? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: libav_0.6.2-1_i386.changes is NEW

2011-03-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Reinhard, are there any *technical* reasons for our switch from ffmpeg to the libav fork? What are the technical differences now and in the long term? Will libav retain ABI-/API-compatibility with ffmpeg? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers

Re: ffmpeg-4:0.6.1-5 and jack support

2011-03-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 21.03.2011 09:58, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Sure, feel free to go ahead (I forgot it for the last upload already) Alright, what's the curent best practice for building with JACK support? Adding libjack-dev to BD and be done with it or do we need special-casing for JACK2?

Re: ffmpeg-4:0.6.1-5 and jack support

2011-03-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 21.03.2011 11:00, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: TBH no idea, I would need to look into that more closely as well. I guess it's just a matter of adding the build dep and passing the right line to configure. I have added libjack-dev to Build-Depends and now ./configure shows jack among the

Re: [SCM] mplayer2/master: use pkg-multimedia team as maintainer

2011-03-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 22.03.2011 12:57, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: May I take this as indication that mplayer2 fails the 'is there interest in pkg-multimedia' test? Maybe we should relax our policy for packages targetted at experimental. So single-maintainer approaches like this have a chance to establish in

Re: libav_0.6.2-1_i386.changes is NEW

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Reinhard, thanks for the insightful summary! In related news, I have read that CrystalHD support has now been merged into ffmpeg and mplayer: http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=125 If this has also already been done in libav, then you really need to advertise yourself a bit more. ;) -

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 24.03.2011 19:46, schrieb Faheem Mitha: I backported ffmpeg 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable to squeeze. On running it, I see the following warning This requires quite a few steps. Could you please elaborate what exactly you did? Do you still have other or older ffmpeg library packages installed

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 11:10, schrieb Faheem Mitha: ii libavcodec0d 0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg codec library rc libavcodec51 3:20080706-0.3lenny2 library to encode decode rc libavcodeccvs51 3:20070329-0.0etch1 library to encode decode ii libavformat0d 0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg file format library rc

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 11:39, schrieb Faheem Mitha: Removing the packages listed above does not change the WARNING: library configuration mismatch Which version of the ffmpeg frontend do you use? Does this error message only appear when you run the ffmpeg binary? Do you run the one installed on the

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 12:13, schrieb Faheem Mitha: According to the ffmpeg developers, this reflects a mismatch of versions. Assuming they are correct, and this is not just blowing smoke, then my feeling is that this is caused by insufficiently tight package dependencies, so my suggestion would be to

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 12:39, schrieb Faheem Mitha: Well, as long as you're sure disabling the bug won't mask real problems. How do the ffmpeg developers feel about it? I still don't understand how this warning could occur on your system in the first place if all libraries are installed from the same

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 12:53, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: I still don't understand how this warning could occur on your system in the first place if all libraries are installed from the same source, i.e. unstable. You really didn't rebuild anything yourself? Sorry, I was wrong! I see this in unstable

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 13:18, schrieb Faheem Mitha: That very verbose output is part of the warning. :-) Yes, but you omitted it from your initial mail, which didn't make it easier to find. ;) Hmm. Did you confirm this was the problem by changing the config flags? Yes, the culprit is that the

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 13:54, schrieb Faheem Mitha: No I didn't. Look again. It is all there. I wouldn't truncate such a warning. I said My fault, sorry. I am tired today. ;) Ok. So pointing this out to the ffmpeg people is a waste of time, in your opinion? siretart is already one of the ffmpeg

Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

2011-03-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.03.2011 13:58, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I'm happy that Fabian agrees with me. I'll see if I can propose some configure switch for 0.7, but TBH, the trick with building the libraries in different flavors is a very Debian specific trick that cannot be upstreamed easily. Nor am I convinced

Re: [SCM] ffmpeg/master: Disable warning about library configuration mismatch

2011-03-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Disable warning about library configuration mismatch But with this patch it still prints the whole configuration parameters for all libraries. Is this intented? what purpose does it serve? ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Re: [SCM] ffmpeg/master: Disable warning about library configuration mismatch

2011-03-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 30.03.2011 11:01, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: The configuration line is awfully long in Debian, at least --enable-swscale can be dropped, let's check if we can drop some more. Not many, apparently. Except for the compression libraries, support for external libraries defaults to no:

Re: [SCM] ffmpeg/master: Disable warning about library configuration mismatch

2011-03-31 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 30.03.2011 02:01, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: It helps upstream with understanding what libraries are involved in bug reports. Yes, but it still confuses users *without* bug reports each time they start ffmpeg. :/ ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers

Re: [SCM] libquicktime/master: 11-gtk+-2.24.patch: Patch to remove deprecation warning when compiling against new gtk libraries (Closes: #622050).

2011-04-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The current libquicktime in git fixes two issues that appear with newer gtk+ libraries. Please upload ASAP. Thanks, - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [SCM] libquicktime/master: 11-gtk+-2.24.patch: Patch to remove deprecation warning when compiling against new gtk libraries (Closes: #622050).

2011-04-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.04.2011 05:31, schrieb Alessio Treglia: Why not update to the latest upstream 1.2.x release? Good question. ;) I do not use libquicktime myself and am thus not very interested in this package anymore. I just wanted to avoid it lying around with RC bugs. I'd love to give it away if

Re: Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

2011-04-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Sorry, I am late to the party, but IMHO the switch from ffmpeg to libav and the introduction of a new upstream release (i.e. 0.6.2) with all its improvements should be mentioned. - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Please omit the debian/ directory from release tarballs

2011-04-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
/ directory altogether from the release tarballs. Advanced users who might want to build and test Debian packages from other sources but ours could then still checkout an SVN snapshot of xvid and do as they prefer. Best Regards, Fabian Greffrath [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html [2] http

Run make info by default?

2011-04-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
information subsequent to the configure script, so maybe it could even get called from there... Best Regards, Fabian Greffrath ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: vo-aacenc_0.1.0~rc1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2011-04-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear ftp-masters, while I *highly appreciate* your timely acceptance of the vo-aacenc package (AAC is an MPEG specification after all), I still fail to see why very similar packages like lame are left unattended in the NEW queue for 9 months now! Best Regards, Fabian Greffrath Am

Re: vo-aacenc_0.1.0~rc1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2011-04-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.04.2011 01:08, schrieb Sebastian Dröge: Doing that now... the AAC and AMRWB encoders will be in the next release after the one that will be released this or next week. Great, thanks a lot! BTW, which release, -bad or -ugly? - Fabian ___

Re: vo-aacenc_0.1.0~rc1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2011-04-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Alexander, Am 19.04.2011 02:15, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: Do you consider that a good way to start a productive discussion, or you just want to dump some heat? If it's the second, I recommend to stop reading here, and send all your replies to /dev/null. Thanks in advance! I did

Re: vo-aacenc_0.1.0~rc1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2011-04-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.04.2011 04:45, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: In the past months, I did a couple of pings to the DPL and ftp-master. It doesn't make sense to reiterate everything in detail as there is nothing 'solid' to report (otherwise I of course would have reported it), but espc. Alexander and our DPL have

Re: [SCM] clam/master: Add libjack-dev to Build-depends so it builds also against jack1

2011-05-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.05.2011 03:43, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I guess this should go the other way round, i.e., libjack-jackd2-dev | libjack-dev The former provides the latter and no matter which implementation you chose, the shlibs variable will always point to the jack2 library.

Bug#627083: recommends: jackd is a bit weak

2011-05-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.05.2011 08:24, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Generally libraries for daemons should *not* recommend their daemon. 100% agreed! - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Reissue: vo-aacenc_0.1.0~rc1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2011-06-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear ftp-masters and pkg-multimedia team, to pick up the discussion from 6 weeks ago (see below, sorry for top-posting): Are there any news with regard to the acceptance of the xvidcore, x264 and mjpegtools packages into Debian? Our previous discussion at least led to the rejection of the

Testing my mail configuration, sorry

2011-06-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
test ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers

Bug#629619: VLC cannot be selected as the default video player in GNOME 3

2011-06-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
tags 629619 + patch thanks Please add audio/x-vorbis+ogg; and video/x-ogm+ogg; to the list of supported MimeTypes in the vlc.desktop file and run update-desktop-database (as root). The attached patch is for the vlc.desktop file. - Fabian --- vlc-1.1.9/share/vlc.desktop 2011-02-09

Bug#630245: libmms: Libmms uses deprecated python function BaseException.message

2011-06-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reassign 630245 mimms severity 630245 normal notfound 630245 0.6-1 found 630245 3.2.1-2 thanks Am 12.06.2011 23:00, schrieb Wesley J. Landaker: The deprecation problem is a bug in mimms (written in python), not libmms (written in C). It results in a warning message, and has nothing to do with

Re: libav and ffmpeg

2011-06-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.06.2011 10:54, schrieb A Mennucc: accordind to debian/copyright both source packages above are tracking libav.org ... wouldn't it be better if the latter would be used to track (and maybe package) the ffmpeg.org codebase ? In this (or at least related) context...

Re: libav and ffmpeg

2011-06-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 22.06.2011 10:45, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Neat, no? I'm busy preparing the Libav 0.7 release, then FFmpeg does a git merge from libav.org and quickly publishes both 0.7 and 0.8. Cool, uh? I just don't get it. Why does he merge back the code of the fork that split off of ffmpeg for his

Re: libav and ffmpeg

2011-06-22 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 22.06.2011 11:00, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: He doesn't merge everything, only stuff that he likes. But the release announcement says: ...it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt and libav. ^^^^ ___

Re: splitting of libav-extra branches

2011-06-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 24.06.2011 10:16, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I'm therefore asking for comments on this before I create the new libav-extra.git and delete the 'extra' branches from the libav.git repository. I see. On the one hand, the libav-extra packages do not share sources with the libav packages (i.e.

Fwd: libebml 1.2.1 libmatroska 1.2.0 released

2011-06-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
To the attention of the libmatroska/libebml maintainers. Original-Nachricht Betreff: libebml 1.2.1 libmatroska 1.2.0 released Datum: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:10:29 +0200 Von: Moritz Bunkus mor...@bunkus.org An: matroska-us...@lists.matroska.org Hey, The Matroska team has released

Re: Problem with libavformat and mkv

2011-07-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Derek, please file a proper bug report with Debian's reportbug tool, e.g. reportbug mplayer. As it is now, your bug report is unfortunately quite useless for us. - Fabian Am 02.07.2011 18:21, schrieb VDR User: Hi. I sent the following to boe...@inb.uni-luebeck.de but was then told

Re: xvidcore_1.3.2-2_amd64.changes is NEW

2011-07-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 26.07.2011 11:33, schrieb Debian FTP Masters: Changes: xvidcore (2:1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low . * document copyright and license of altivec assembler I switched from nasm to yasm, which is missing in the changelog! ___

Re: lame_3.98.4+repack1-1_amd64.changes is NEW

2011-07-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Andres, interesting repackaging work, but wouldn't it have been sufficient for most of the changes that you apply to just grab a recent VCS snapshot and package that? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Bug#635662: xvidcore: FTBFS on hurd-i386: unrecognized platform

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 01:24, schrieb Pino Toscano: currently[1], xvidcore does not compile on hurd-i386. The problem is the lack of support for GNU/Hurd in configure; the attached patch (which requires autoreconf) provides it. Applied upstream, thanks! - Fabian

libdvdcss in Debian?

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Does anyone believe it makes sense to try getting libdvdcss accepted into Debian? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: libdvdcss in Debian?

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 11:23, schrieb Alessio Treglia: Let's start working on it! All done: http://debian.greffrath.com/unstable/libdvdcss_1.2.10-0fab1.dsc ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Bug#635719: xvidcore: FTBFS (kfreebsd-amd64): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `xvid_FIR_14_3_2_1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Christoph Egger: Maybe some architecture-detection broke when adding hurd? I don't think so. I have added kfreebsd-amd64 to the list of archs to build-depend on yasm, so asm code is compiled für kfreebsd-amd64 now but hasn't before. So most probably either the

Bug#635719: xvidcore: FTBFS (kfreebsd-amd64): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `xvid_FIR_14_3_2_1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 15:21, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: So most probably either the build system or yasm itself fail to build PIC code on kfreebsd-amd64. Indeed, it is also explicitely disabled in FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/xvid/Makefile?rev=1.36

Re: [SCM] xvidcore/master: Explicitely Build-Conflict against yasm on kfreebsd-amd64.

2011-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 28.07.2011, 21:16 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: The link you've quoted from freebsd ports disables yasm on both amd64 and on i386: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/xvid/Makefile?rev=1.36 Shouldn't we consequently include any bsd architecture here, not

Re: [SCM] xvidcore/master: Explicitely Build-Conflict against yasm on kfreebsd-amd64.

2011-07-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 29.07.2011 11:18, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I've compiled current git on asdfasdf.debian.net. Find the buildlog below. I'm particularily nervous about the symbols diffs: I'd say it looks good. As for the symbols diff, I have no idea where it comes from, but it also appeared for the last

Re: [Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

2011-08-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 30.07.2011 14:54, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: I have investigated in this issue a bit last year and filed the following bug report against kdemultimedia-kio-plugins: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592726 More background can be found there. IIRC, the culprit was the lame

Re: [SCM] faad2/master: Merge patch from ubuntu.

2011-08-03 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 02.08.2011 16:51, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: patch is missing documentation done. ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 19:35, schrieb A. Costa: For the record, I've had this same install bug for about a month, even when installing with 'aptitude': [...] So the bug is real enough. Last month F. Greffrath advised: Adding = 2.4 in debian/pycompat Assuming that would help, why not do it?

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 07.08.2011 13:08, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: I therefore see no reason to elevate this particular to be a general issue for Debian. I do. Are you fine with escalating this issue on -devel? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Re: Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 09:38, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Does your proposed change to debian/pycompat fix it? If yes, just apply the change and let's be done with it. If not, what would need to be done to fix this properly? Then we could start arguing if fixing it was worth the efford. To be honest, I

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 10:44, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: We do not solve this issue by educating Debian packages more widely about weird possible combinations of packages: Debian support upgrades one stable release at a time - Debian do *not* support keeping around old packages! It is exact this point

Re: Accepted x264 2:0.116.2037+gitf8ebd4a-1 (source amd64)

2011-08-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 22:05, schrieb Rogério Brito: I will add a paragraph there about xvidcore+lame+x264. If anybody has any comment, please let me know. The paragraph about lame is already very well phrased IMHO. I think, however, that in order to not confuse readers about the background of these

Re: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 05:22, schrieb Andres Mejia: I have seen a commit with mp4v2 that disables building of the static library. Though I know binaries in Debian are normally linked with shared libraries, distributing the static library is beneficial to users with different requirements for software

Re: Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 09:38, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Does your proposed change to debian/pycompat fix it? If yes, just apply the change and let's be done with it. There was already a XS-Python-Version field in debian/control that said all, which is obviously wrong when it fails with python2.3. So

Re: [SCM] faad2/master: Merge patch from ubuntu.

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Does anyone feel like uploading faad2 from GIT? You may want to claim your copyright as a package maintainer first (or should we simply put the team there), since I only added myself to debian/copyright. - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 11:34, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: No. All versions (available in Debian) indeed satisfies the package needs. My god, how can one be so stubborn! ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-12 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 19:12, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: My god, how can one be so ignorant and disrespectful as to not listen to the arguments put forward (or ask if those are not understood). Talking about arguments, I have two arguments in the form of users that have reported real issues with the

Re: [Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

2011-08-13 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Montag, den 01.08.2011, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Am 30.07.2011 14:54, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: I have investigated in this issue a bit last year and filed the following bug report against kdemultimedia-kio-plugins: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592726 More

Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for the library they need. This can be quite a burden on various He? Why would I have to recompile a library's

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well

Re: Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 15.08.2011 11:59, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I could imagien as valid use caseto produce a (partly) statically built binary that works on a larger amount of distributions. But granted, we are now in the speculation area. Well, whatever, I am *not against* providing static libraries. I just

Re: Unable to install ffmpeg

2011-08-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hello, Am 16.08.2011 01:38, schrieb Amandeep Singh: I have 64 bit debian installed on my lenovo T400. I installed kino, video editing tool. It complained, that I didn't have ffmpeg installed. I tried installing it using apt-get install ffmpeg command. But I got following error. This is not a

Re: Unable to install ffmpeg

2011-08-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.08.2011 13:52, schrieb Amandeep Singh: Hey thanks. I would use the bug reporting tool next time. For your info, I am running debian squeeze (latest version and fully updated). And apt-get update didn't help. You probably have some crap in your /etc/apt/sources.list. What does apt-cache

Bug#638000: Unable to install ffmpeg

2011-08-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 16.08.2011 21:59, schrieb Amandeep Singh: Didn't help. But sentences like this do not help either. What exactly does aptitude print if you try to install ffmpeg? What does apt-cache search libavdevice show? What does apt-cache policy libavdevice* show? Your sources.list looks reasonable.

Bug#638000: Unable to install ffmpeg

2011-08-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.08.2011 13:49, schrieb Amandeep Singh: $ apt-cache policy libavcodec52 libavcodec52: Installed: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 Candidate: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 Version table: *** 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4:0.5.2-6 0 500

Bug#638000: Unable to install ffmpeg

2011-08-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.08.2011 13:49, schrieb Amandeep Singh: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 09:40 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: What exactly does aptitude print if you try to install ffmpeg? $ apt-get install ffmpeg ^^^ BTW, aptitude != apt-get. Aptitude has an interactive

Re: Fwd: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.08.2011 06:14, schrieb Micah Gersten: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users. it doesnt help that debian is using that name as a package: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer/news/20110817T173341Z.html What else package name do you suggest for a software that calls

Bug#639593: libdca-utils: No large file support on x86

2011-08-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, thanks for the bug report. Am 28.08.2011 14:53, schrieb Julian Hughes: The same command with the same file works normally on amd64. The same command with small files works normally on x86. That's expected. Does it work if you recompile the package with CFLAGS += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

Bug#639593: libdca-utils: No large file support on x86

2011-08-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 29.08.2011 13:59, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Has been rejected for the vlc bugtracker. It seems that libdca does not have a proper backtracker. Therefore, forwarding to the devel mailing list might is more likely to reach people that could do something about this.

Large file support for libdca

2011-08-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hello libdca developers, I hope anyone is still listening? Currently, a bug has been filed in the Debian Bug Tracker [1] about dcadec failing to decode large files. The problem only occurs with files larger than 2GB and only on i386 systems. It was proposed to add CFLAGS +=

Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2011-08-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Alright, then I guess there is nobody listening anymore... :( Original-Nachricht Betreff: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Datum: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:34:16 +0200 (CEST) Von: mailer-dae...@greffrath.com (Mail Delivery System) An: fab...@greffrath.com This is the mail system

Re: FFmpeg package in Debian/Ubuntu

2011-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Dominik, Am 23.09.2011 18:03, schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski: Dear All, I'm sending this (Bcc) to Debian/Ubuntu package maintainers who are listed under Original Maintainers on http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ffmpeg and who seem to be doing something at least a bit related

Bug#642810: FTBFS on Alpha: need --enable-pic for shared library build.

2011-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.09.2011 11:05, schrieb Michael Cree: x264 FTBFS from source on Alpha during the link of the shared library because -fpic was not used in the compilation. Why don't we just pass --enable-pic unconditionally for all shared library builds? - Fabian

Bug#639593: libdca-utils: No large file support on x86

2011-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 29.08.2011 16:33, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I'm personally not familiar enough with the code to make this decision, and in fact, I suppose nobody in pkg-multimedia is. I have rebuilt libdca once without and once with CFLAGS += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and created md5sums of all files in the

Bug#639593: libdca-utils: No large file support on x86

2011-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
A more elegant fix is to add these build flags conditionally by means of getconf, which adds the appropriate flags on i386 but adds nothing new on amd64: $ git diff diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index ad6f467..89a0069 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@

Bug#642810: FTBFS on Alpha: need --enable-pic for shared library build.

2011-10-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 05.10.2011 20:25, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: I'm pretty sure that this would break compilation at least on i386. x264 ships with very sophisticated assembler optimizations that I'd expect to break with that. Does this also apply to other archs or is only i386 affected? In the latter case I

Bug#642810: configure fails to detect alphaev67 as ALPHA

2011-10-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
/bugreport.cgi?bug=642810 The attached patch fixes this issue by considering alpha* as ALPHA in the configure script. Best Regards, Fabian Greffrath Author: Fabian Greffrath fabian+deb...@greffrath.com Description: Debian's alpha buildds identify themselves as alphaev67, so consider alpha* as ALPHA

Bug#644873: Info received (Bug#644873 closed by Reinhard Tartler siret...@tauware.de (Re: Bug#644873: unmet dependencies: libavcodec53 : Depends: libavutil51 ( 4:0.7.2-99) but 5:0.8-0.1 is to be in

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.10.2011 01:10, schrieb Anti Spam User 3: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnash-common : Depends: libavcodec53 (= 4:0.7-1) but it is not going to be installed or libavcodec-extra-53 (= 4:0.7-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavformat53 (= 4:0.7-1) but it is

Re: FFmpeg package in Debian/Ubuntu

2011-10-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Michael, thanks for presenting your - doubtless biased, but however - point of view. Am 11.10.2011 02:24, schrieb Michael Niedermayer: In terms of features: As far as I know, as an outsider, the reasons for the work were not technical ones. Has the situation relaxed a bit in this

Re: FFmpeg package in Debian/Ubuntu

2011-10-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi, Am 13.10.2011 23:17, schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: Is this purely what you expect from Michael, or did you find anything in his mail that made you believe it was written in a biased way? (I ask because I was impressed how unbiased he wrote the message - I wouldn't have been able to after what

Bug#645779: Please package new upstream version 3.99

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.10.2011 16:52, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: LAME 3.99 stable is now released and you can find sources there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/3.99/ I have lost track a bit about what of our changes have been accepted and commited upstream in this release. I think we can get

Bug#646236: [libmp4v2-dev] FTBFS for armhf: offset out of range

2011-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 24.10.2011 23:49, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: Thanks for your advice... I've just committed the change you proposed. So I'm also tagging this bug as pending, since it will be closed with next upload. I've seen you pass the --disable-optimize flag unconditionally for all arches. Is this

Bug#646236: [libmp4v2-dev] FTBFS for armhf: offset out of range

2011-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.10.2011 09:13, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: Since I'm not good in that and I really don't know how to split the configure parameters depending on the arch, could you (or someone else in the DMM Team) correct it? Try this (but I don't know if armhf is already recognized by dpkg):

Bug#646236: [libmp4v2-dev] FTBFS for armhf: offset out of range

2011-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.10.2011 09:31, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: OK, gonna try. Thanks a lot for the hint ;-) You're welcome, don't forget to pass $(confflags) over to ./configure, though. See the xvidcore package as an example for a straightforward usage of this mechanism.

Bug#646236: [libmp4v2-dev] FTBFS for armhf: offset out of range

2011-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.10.2011 16:02, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: Issue corrected. Thanks a lot, Fabian! :-) Please, feel free to check if I made any big mistake in there. I already made before... and corrected; it was my first time with it :-P I'd say it looks reasonable under the assumption that

Bug#646236: [libmp4v2-dev] FTBFS for armhf: offset out of range

2011-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.10.2011 16:35, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: I'd say it looks reasonable under the assumption that DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU is actually armhf on these machines. It isn't: $ dpkg-architecture -aarmhf 2 /dev/null | grep HOST_ARCH DEB_HOST_ARCH=armhf DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=arm

Re: Processing of x264_0.118.2092+git6eac7c3-1_i386.changes

2011-11-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
To answer my own question: It has been applied twice, thus removing our patch. Am 02.11.2011 09:27, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Why do we still apply the build-on-hurd.patch (i.e. why is it possible to apply it at all?), since it has been committed upstream some months ago: http

Re: Bug#647479: libflac8: Does not show rate.

2011-11-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 03.11.2011 07:00, schrieb Sthu Deus: Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio) If I read this correctly, then the internal ffmpeg flac decoder is used to decode that file, not libflac, right?`Seems legit to reassign this to either libavformat or mplayer2, any

Bug#647479: libflac8: Does not show rate.

2011-11-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reassign 647479 libavcodec53 found 647479 4:0.7.2-1 # the version is guessed, since the OP seems to use testing thanks Am 04.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: If I read this correctly, then the internal ffmpeg flac decoder is used to decode that file, not libflac, right? Seems legit

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