Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I joined the videostream of the installer BoF at DebConf[1].
> I also became a bit involved via IRC.  Joey Hess raised the question
> about the criteria to add a Blend or not.  I answered "all in the list
> of the bug report #758116" which IMHO fits the criterion of "actively
> maintained and some valuable content for users".
>
> I think it should be also a criterion that the team behind the Blend
> confirms that they are interested and so I'm hereby pinging all lists in
> question to ask you for confirmation.

Do we want to pursue this? I think that if we could manage to provide
useful blend packages it would be worth it, but so far I have failed
to do so. I think maybe we need to rethink the approach and reduce the
number of metapackages. Today we have too many. Maybe we should reduce
them to 2: multimedia-codecs and multimedia-production.

The first would depend on all the codec-prividing packages, so that we
can tell users: install this and every media file on the internets is
playable. Today we might have some files not playable in some media
players by default because (for example) the appropriate gstreamer-*
was not installed or some other nonsense. Hopefully, the internets
will fill up with "install multimedia-codecs" instead of "add
deb-multimedia" instructions.

The second should provide pretty much every multimedia production
related application we have, plus ladspa and LV2 plugins. This is more
likely to be more useful to add to tasksel than the first metapackage.
Ideally this would make debian a competitor to kxstudio or avstudio. I
think we have some way to go before we are at their level, but that
doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Ideally we could get them (the
downstreams) to work with us and simply modify and package additional
things we do not (or cannot) have in Debian.

What do you think?

This is the current git repo for the blend:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/multimedia-blends.git/

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler