I would like to become a maintainer of a debian package for the cinelerra video editting software <http://www.heroinewarrior.com/>. I haven't seen any reference to any other effort or past effort for this software so I'm willing to take it up. There are rpm packages for cinelerra provided directly by the developers of it. I've used alien to install them, but I'd prefer to be able to apt-get them straight from a debian mirror. B
This is my first attempt at making a debian package, but just about every other program I use already has a debian package. Though I have done a couple of rpm packages before. Cinelerra includes a lot of libraries in it that are available externally like libavc1394. Most of the libraries are already available as debian packages and are the same versions provided in unstable, but most are at least close to the same version. libraw1394 version 0.9.0 is in the cinelerra and version 0.10.1 is in unstable. Should I remove them from the cinelerra source code and use the version in debian? Also, if I do so, then that will leave me with a huge diff file removing a lot of code from the original tarball, should I just find a way to disable them or slightly modify the original tarball just to remove those libraries? cinelerra has alsa-lib, audiofile, esound, freetype, libavc1394, libmpeg3, libraw1394, libsndfile, quicktime, tiff, toolame, libvorbis, libogg, libdv, ffmpeg, and probably some I've missed. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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