[Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:22:11AM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:25:50AM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>> >Any chance you can get them into backports.org?

>> Sorry - won't do that extra work:

>No worries. If it's too much pain or just plain against policy, we can 
>have our own small repo for video stuff at dc8.

I am not worried :-)

I clarified the challenges I see in porting to bpo as a help, in cases 
someone else doing it.


>> >As for other packages ... We need a fixed ffmpeg2theora as I believe 
>> >the etch version still has #429937: no large file support.
>> 
>> I'll have a look at that.
>
>I read the bugs more closely, now. I think it's just that it hasn't 
>built on mipsel, plus 0.19 was removed from testing and somehow that 
>messed things up:

I am backporting ffmpeg now (I expect newer releases produce higher 
quality images and/or run faster) and will backport ffmpeg2theora 0.21 
linked against that.


If interested (you mentioned it was some time ago you'd been playing 
with backporting), this is the chain of backport pools I create/use so 
far:

1. src: build tools, like debhelper and cdbs

2. ffmpeg-src: libs needed by ffmpeg, like libfaad2

3. icecast-src: libs needed by icecast tools, like libav* and libtheora

4. icecast: icecast tools, like icecast2 itself and ffmpeg2theora


Pools ending in src have a corresponding pbuilder (or cowbuilder) 
build environment setup, subscribes to that and earlier pools. So e.g. 
icecast-src includes both src and ffmpeg-src, but not icecast (or any 
other of the 60+ pools at http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/ ).

Each package is build in the most conservative possible build 
environment.  So libraries that don't need any special of the backports 
to build is _not_ built using the backported debhelper but just in a 
plain vanilla etch environment.


  - Jonas

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