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Hello I reply to Armin's release critical bug report and also cc'ing the maintainer, past uploaders of mediathekview and Rhonda, who has offered help and advice with sponsoring requests [1], in the hope that we all can improve the current situation of mediathekview in Debian. First of all i'm not the maintainer but i would like to contribute and help with packaging. I've done some research and i've compared the actual version of mediathekview 3.0 with our current version in Debian. I have also opened a thread at the upstream support forum to gather advice how to deal with the situation. [2] One forum member pointed me to another thread where the main developer clearly stated that he does not intend to support two different versions of mediathekview. [3] Note: German is required. At the moment only version 3.0 supports a list with all available movies while you can only use a manual method in 2.4 to retrieve a fraction of the supported streams. It is unlikely that upstream will implement a feature to support the new lists of movies with the old 2.4 branch of mediathekview. In 3.0 the GUI has considerably changed and a lot of functions under the hood were rewritten and new features added. I think the delta is too big to grant a freeze exception but that's my personal opinion. All in all supporting version 2.4 in Wheezy would mean a lot of work for the maintainer and would be most likely futile because 2.4 is outdated and broken and won't be fixed by the upstream developers. Therefore i also recommend to remove Mediathekview 2.4 from Wheezy. I would like to work on Mediathekview 3.0 and reintroduce it in Jessie/Sid. At the moment my package compiles with the help of the Ant build system but it is not finished. Feedback and thoughts about Mediathekview in Debian are much appreciated. Kind regards Markus Koschany [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647843#10 [2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/zdfmediathk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=307 [3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/zdfmediathk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=247#p1135
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