Debian's mediatomb package is in bad shape

[Micah Gersten]

On 06/24/2011 09:29 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've CC'ed both Sven and Leonard explicitly, because both do not seem to
> be subscribed to pkg-multimedia. Sven, Leonard, are you (still?)
> interested in participating in pkg-multimedia [2]?
>
> I notice that the mediatomb package in debian is in a rather bad
> shape. [1] currently lists 3 RC and 5 important bugs.  Moreover, there
> hasn't been a new upstream release for over a year.
>
> I know that I did the last upload of the package, but since I don't
> really use it, getting the package in shape is not really my
> priority. For the team, I ask you what to do about it. Do we have
> volunteers to get it in shape or shall we rather orphan/remove it from
> Debian?
>
> [1]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=mediatomb;dist=unstable
>
> [2]
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join

I have an interest as far as there seem to be users in Ubuntu for the
package.  I'm still catching up on various tasks, but I can try to take
this over (would still like to keep it under pkg-multimedia if that's
ok).  The problem is that I don't personally use it.

Micah