On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:59:38PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Hi all, > I've just adopted the bug #520271 (RFA: ecasound2.2), I think it is a good > candidate to get maintained by the Multimedia Team. > > The main problem I see is that the source package is named 'ecasound2.2' > even if the current version is 2.7.0 (2.7.2 if you consider upstream). > From the README.Debian: > > ecasound2.2 release was a major change from 2.0 series; > and that was the reason for ecasound2.2 package name; we had two > versions to coexist. > > For transition purposes Debian source package name still retains > the ecasound2.2 name. > > I think this may lead to confusion and renaming the source package to just > 'ecasound' would make things cleaner and clearer. AFAIK a solution would be > to upload the new 'ecasound' and ask for removal for the 'ecasound2.2'. > Is this right? > > Also, there are a lot of problems with the packaging (e.g. 24 lintian > warnings, "ancient" packaging and a lot of mess with the generated binary > packages) that would probably make easier to re-start packaging from > scratch (this would be made easier by replacing 'ecasound2.2' with > 'ecasound', see above). What do you think? > > Cheers > > P.S. If anyone is interested in helping with this, I'll push everything > to git as soon as I finish initial clean-up.
Does anyone have anything to say? Anyway, I've just pushed a mostly-working of the clean and updated package version on git [0]. There are still some issues (some remaining lintian warnings, broken python module, old d/copyright, ...), if anyone wants to help the package is there. Cheers [0] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/ecasound.git;a=summary -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
