[Pkg-freevo-maint] [Freevo-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Release 1.8.3

[Duncan Webb]

A Mennucc wrote:
> hi, I just uploaded  freevo 1.8.3  and   python-pygame 1.8.1 into
> Debian/experimental
> 
> freevo in Debian has some patches ; some are related to how I decided to
> package and "Debianize" it; but two in particular, that I attach,
> correct bugs, and here is a short explanation
> 
> idlebar : correct a bug that prevents the idlebar from starting

Thanks for this. The jelly functions are also not needed.

> no_numeric : AFAICS there is no code in freevo that uses Numeric;
>  Numeric was used by python-pygame before 1.8.1, but IMHO there is no
> need to crash freevo a-priori if Numeric is not installed

Not sure about this, IIRC the surfarray functions in pygame use Numeric
and there is one screen saver that uses it. But it is worth removing
from main as the code is now in setup.py.

Duncan