Since several developers(and many users) have expressed interest in the video-editing program, cinelerra, I thought I would post here that I plan to close my ITP of it. Although several packages have been made fixing various build-environment problems, cinelerra is plagued by legally uncertain components making it unsuitable for upload into debian. At the very least, it has deCSS and LAME code embedded in it and several video codec's which may or may not have legal issues with them.
This isn't to say that it can _never_ enter debian, just that a significant amount of code hacking would have to take place as well as a general audit. Needless to say, I do not have time(nor the hardware) to make these modifications, nor support the resulting modified program. If anyone feels up to this task, I would be happy to send over my patches from my [incomplete] attempt at packaging. Barring that, I will close this ITP in a few days. -mike
