On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:26:05 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: src:libvideo-capture-v4l-perl > Version: 0.902-4 > Tags: patch > > libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module, > but > it can use the Debian package instead. > > patch at > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/344232947/libvideo-capture-v4l-perl_0.902-3ubuntu7_0.902-4ubuntu1.diff.gz
Thanks for the bug report. Interestingly, there is no libvideo-frequencies-perl package in Debian, just in Ubuntu. On the CPAN Video::Frequencies seems to exist only as part of Video-Capture-V4l: https://metacpan.org/pod/Video::Frequencies Looking at the Ubuntu package at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libvideo-frequencies-perl_0.03-1ubuntu1.dsc this is a native package, it looks like some James A. Pattie created a native Debian package by taking Frequencies.pm from Video-Capture-V4l and updated it from a frequencies list in xawtv 3.88. Once in 2003. And no indication of an upstream source location. And somehow this ended up in Ubuntu. So at a first glance it doesn't look to make a lot of sense to take this one-time third-party file from unknown origin and turn it into a package in Debian as well. If the original intention on the Ubuntu side was to have a newer frequencies list, we could consider to (add a patch to) update Frequencies.pm in libvideo-capture-v4l-perl from the Ubuntu package. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Dire Straits: Once Upon A Time In The West
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