On Thursday, September 29, 2011 02:30:00 PM Jaromil wrote: > dear Ubuntu MOTU developers, > > Among other projects, I'm the current (upstream) maintainer of the > frei0r plugin collection and I'm doing my best to follow the correct > integration of new versions of our plugins inside distributions, > especially Ubuntu and Debian. > > I'm packaging frei0r plugins for Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/frei0r > and I've noticed that in oneiric the package providing frei0r is now: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/gnome-video-effects-frei0r funny > enough, the frei0r-plugins dependency on that page points to a 404 > http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/frei0r-plugins while following the > links of your package, I've arrived to this page > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVideoEffects where it seems to me that the > effects applied on the face of Nicolas Christener are coming from > EffectTV.
I think this is not quite correct. > From the code I also learn that the gnome-video-effect project is > aiming to apply a descriptive meta-layer on plugins from gstreamer, > while I don't exactly know where the frei0r plugins are in all > this. Despite we are talking about DLO plugins, most applications > using them are forced to include a collection in their own source. > > My reason to write you this mail is double: to understand what is > happening to our plugins in Ubuntu and to understand how we can > provide users the correct instructions to install frei0r plugins > (which are a dependency to many video editing and manipulation > applications...) > > so now my questions to you: > > - are you really including frei0r plugins as stated on the ubuntu > oneiric package? do you know anyone I can contact to solve our > package dependency? I tried hard on launchpad, but I'm getting > nowhere. > > - If frei0r plugins are going to be included as a package in Ubuntu, > can they please be included with a reference to the upstream > source? it is http://frei0r.dyne.org (and not gstreamer) and the > website is a good resource of information for users and developers > interested. > > > thanks for your attention to details, kind regards If you look at http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/frei0r-plugins you'll see the information about the current binary package we are shipping in Ubuntu. It is built from a source package names frei0r. It lists the project home page as http://www.piksel.org/frei0r and not gstreamer. Ubuntu gets it's frei0r package unmodified from Debian (we are a Debian derivative), so I would encourage you to contact the Debian maintainer (Luca Bigliardi <[email protected]>) about updating the homepage information. The http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/gnome-video-effects-frei0r package you referred to is a Gnome frei0r wrapper that depends on frei0r-plugins. It doesn't replace it. I don't know why http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/frei0r-plugins was 404 for you, but it works here just fine. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
