On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 17:01, Alessandro Ghedini <al3x...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Please allow for more than two days. Sometimes people are just busy. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
