[Freewx-maint] Bug#588104: Any news?

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:42:33PM +0100, Fabrice Coutadeur wrote:
> Any news or comment on my patch? As I was saying before, this is the
> only piece blocking the upload of dvdstyler (a DVD Authoring tool) in
> Debian.

This doesn't appear to be correct - as people have noted in earlier comments,
the ITP bug for dvdstyler:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635516

is marked as blocked by the ITP bug for mjpegtools:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515850

which was rejected by ftpmaster in July 2011:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-July/020408.html

The wx media player module appears to be unmaintained upstream, and the
current implementation of low quality.  If we are actually blocking
something useful that would otherwise be in Debian, then that's one thing,
but that doesn't appear to be the case, and falsely claiming that it is
really isn't productive.

Cheers,
    Olly