Hi everyone, I'm the Debian and Ubuntu package maintainer for LiVES (source package name: lives), a very popular video editing suite, and am thinking about joining the pkg-multimedia-maintainers team (if you'll have me!). The latest upstream version (1.1.8) is in Debian unstable (due to migrate to testing in 9 days) and a sync request to sync it to Ubuntu lucid has just been ACK'd by an Ubuntu MOTU (thanks Alessio!). There are no known bugs in Debian or Ubuntu that aren't fixed by 1.1.8-1. 1.1.8-1 fails to build on mips, mipsel and sparc, but AFAICT (please correct me if I'm wrong) that's due to a dependency problem with libgtk2.0-dev. I've been maintaing LiVES for Debian and Ubuntu since I took over from Gürkan Sengün in July last year, at the release of version 1.0.0. My version was the first to be uploaded to Debian, and the first to be synced to Ubuntu (although a version already existed on GetDeb).
At the moment I don't use git for a VCS, but I'm planning to start using it for the next version. At http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging it says quilt needs to be used for patch management, however at the moment I currently use dpatch. Is this okay, or will I need to change to quilt? If my membership is accepted, I'll change the maintainer field to Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. The only patch in LiVES at the moment does not currently have a DEP-3 compliant header, but I'll fix that for the next version. I've joined both the pkg-multimedia-maintainers and pkg-multimedia-commits mailing lists, and are pretty familiar with managing bugs in Debian (I haven't done that much of it, but for some examples look at the closed bugs for lives). I also agree to review other's work. I have an alioth account - username is hrickards-guest. Thanks -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Debian Lenny server | Debian Sid desktop | UNR Karmic netbook A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
