RFS: projectm (ping)

[Matthias Klumpp]

> 
> 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.
Okay. Can I get access to the Git repository to make changes on the
package? The I would stop committing new packages to Debian Mentors and
push all changes directly to the Git repo.
Cheers
 Matthias


>> 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
>>