On 03.11.2017 14:12, gregor herrmann wrote: > 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.
sorry for the noise, I agree, that Ubuntu should remove the delta.
