Toonloop package

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:56:36AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:27:40AM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>By the way this project is very simple for now. It contains:
>>* executable
>>* man page
>>* desktop file
>>* icon
>>* Debian menu entry
>>* copyright, readme, etc.
>>Anything else I should add?
>
>Your packaging overrrides a lintian warning.  Please either add a 
>comment in there explaining why you believe that warning to be wrong, 
>or remove the override: It is bad to silence lintian without a good 
>reason!

I now commented out that lintian override for now.  Feel free to 
reenable it, but please then add an explanation as noted there.

I am preparing an upload now.

I would like the following to be improved soon:

The packaging depends on a bunch of gstreamer packages and more.  Are 
all of that *always* *crucial* for toonloop?  Dependencies that toonloop 
can survive without for some (maybe exotic) use, should be relaxed to 
recommends.

Similar for build-dependencies: I noticed e.g. mencoder is a 
build-dependency, and that autotools check for it, but if not actually 
used at build time or in any tests, then I suggest improving upstream 
routines to distinguish between buildtime and runtime dependencies - 
e.g. only check for actual build dependencies in autotools and have the 
toonloop application check for runtime dependencies when invoked.


Thanks for your great contribution!


 - Jonas

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