Updating the Debian (and Ubuntu) packaging of Theora

Rogério Brito rbrito at ime.usp.br
Tue Sep 22 23:23:00 UTC 2009


Hi, Clint.

On Sep 22 2009, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 07:53:08PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the Debian team packaging the vorbis/theora doesn't
> > seem to be working on this (I just checked the mailing list archives
> > for this month and the bazar repository).
> 
> The team is defunct.

Those are some sad news. :-(

> If you want to prepare a new source package that addresses the DFSG
> and other release-critical issues, I suggest that you adopt it.

I'm not sure how to deal with the symbols file.

If any of you could lend me a hand with the subject, I could make a
better package (the other issues that I left on the package are really
trivial).

> I'll try make a 1.1beta3 upload in the near future, setting the
> maintainer field to the QA group.

Please, do. If you need "non-specialized" work like I did, I would be
glad to help.


Regards,

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