RFS: projectm (ping)

[Andres Mejia]

On Saturday 19 June 2010 15:31:37 Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm still looking for someone interested in reviewing & sponsoring my
> packaging of projectM.

I just imported your package into the debian-multimedia git repo.
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/projectm.git

This should make it easier to review your package. I don't have time yet to 
review your package. Sorry. Maybe you can trying catching siretart on IRC.

> Package details:
> 
> * Package name    : projectm
>   Version         : 2.0.1-1
>   Upstream Author : projectM Team
> * URL             : http://projectm.sf.net
> * License         : GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1
>   Section         : sound
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> libprojectm-dev - Advanced Milkdrop-compatible music visualization library
> - dev
> libprojectm-qt-dev - projectM Qt4 (development files)
> libprojectm-qt1 - projectM Qt4 bindings
> libprojectm2 - Advanced Milkdrop-compatible music visualization library
> libvisual-projectm - libvisual module for projectM
> projectm-data - Advanced Milkdrop-compatible music visualization library -
> data
> projectm-jack - projectM JackAudio module
> projectm-pulseaudio - projectM PulseAudio module
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> The upload would fix these bugs: 565355
> 
> There's some "special" stuff to know about this package: The package
> replaces the orphaned libvisual-projectm package and the libprojectm source
> package.
> I got authorization from the maintainer of libprojectm to take over
> maintainership over this package.
> The pkg produces some Lintian warnings about ancient Autotools scripts or
> Windows binaries in the package. (projectM uses CMake, the
> Autotools-Scripts are just cruft which isn't used) It also has some
> binaries which unnecessarily linked against some libraries. All this
> stuff
> should be
> fixed by upstream, but upstream seems to have a lack of manpower at time,
> so I can't get a clean tarball or fixes for all issues.
> But the overall quality of the pkg is okay, I think.
> By including the package in Debian, a lot of other apps would benefit
> from it. (Some audio-players use it for music visualization)
> The package might be a candidate to be maintained by the Debian-Multimedia
> team.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/projectm
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
> contrib non-free
> - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/projectm/projectm_2.0.1-1.dsc
> 
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
> 
> Kind regards
>  Matthias Klumpp
> 
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-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia