Bug#537128: dependency on moovida-plugins-bad is broken

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hi Jelle,

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 01:15:34PM +0200, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Package: moovida
> Version: 1.0.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi all, I am testing to see if I was able to get a Debian UPnP media
> system up and running but I am unable to get moovida working, the
> moovida-plugins-bad is missing witch contains the pigment plugin that
> is mandatory to run moovida.

I am aware of this.  A few weeks ago I've uploaded moovida,
moovida-plugins-{good,bad,ugly} to NEW at the same time but
moovida-plugins-{bad,ugly} got rejected so half of Moovida got in.
I'm sorry about this, but I couldn't avoid it.  The rejects where due to
license issues, which I currently have resolved with the team so that I
can upload Moovida 1.0.5 soon (packages are almost ready).

> Would it be possible to fix the package and also remove the elisa
> 0.3.5 package witch is a two year old version that does not work, and
> is absolete by the new moovida package.

I am only uploading to experimental for now for two reasons.
1) Elisa packages use python-central to register the Python modules.
   However, when upgrading to Elisa 0.5.37, or Moovida 1.0.x, some
   symlinks to no longer existing files remain and it breaks completely
   (see [1]).  The Moovida 1.0.5 packages will switch to python-support,
   but I want to test it well before uploading to Sid(/Squeeze).
2) Elisa/Moovida features and plugin system with automatic updates.
   This works against Debian's package paradigm since Moovida with
   update itself (even the core), superseeding any work done in the
   Debian package.  Before we have resolved this situation, I will not
   upload to Sid(/Squeeze).  We are working on it though.  The idea is
   to tell Moovida not to update anything that is distributed via
   release and packaged by use, but do allow for downloading/updating
   external plugins (see [2]).

> I think this bug has a higher severity then normal since the package
> does not work in its current state.

I agree. :)

Kind regards,
Paul

1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472624
2: http://lists.moovida.com/pipermail/developers-list/2009-February/001037.html

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