On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:31:04AM -0400, David I. Lehn wrote: > > Hmm. Seems I forgot to ever ITP this. I've had it packaged for more > than a year for use in GStreamer.
argh. i was just packaging it! please remember to ITP always > There's no excuse for not having > uploaded it yet though. ;) You can grab the packages at: > > http://gstreamer.net/releases/debian/mpeg2dec/ your package seems much saner than my stuff. there are some things that i'd fix though, please have a look at them: - license is GPL not LGPL - there are more authors than listed in copyright file - better to provide the mailing list for contact information (rather than annoying the main authors continously) - libc6-dev dependency is Linux-specific (and partly arch-specific) - i made a descriptive description for you might want to use a patch fixing all them follows: diff -ur old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/changelog mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/changelog --- old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/changelog 2002-08-23 17:13:37.000000000 +0200 +++ mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/changelog 2002-08-23 17:15:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ were from automake 1.4. sigh. * libmpeg2dec renamed to libcpuaccel upstream * Increased interface version: libmpeg2-1, libmpeg2-1-dev + * Closing ITP. (Closes: #157944) -- David I. Lehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:56:23 -0500 diff -ur old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/control mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/control --- old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/control 2002-08-23 17:13:37.000000000 +0200 +++ mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/control 2002-08-23 17:01:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Package: libcpuaccel0-dev Architecture: any Section: devel -Depends: libcpuaccel0 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev +Depends: libcpuaccel0 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev | libc-dev Replaces: libmpeg2dec-dev, libmpeg2dec0-dev Conflicts: libmpeg2dec-dev, libmpeg2dec0-dev Description: libcpuaccel development libraries and headers @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Package: libmpeg2-1-dev Architecture: any Section: devel -Depends: libmpeg2-1 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev +Depends: libmpeg2-1 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev | libc-dev Replaces: libmpeg2-dev, libmpeg2-0-dev Conflicts: libmpeg2-dev, libmpeg2-0-dev Description: libmpeg2 development libraries and headers @@ -47,9 +47,24 @@ Replaces: libmpeg2-0 Conflicts: libmpeg2-0 Description: MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder library - MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder library + The main features in libmpeg2 are: . - http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ + * Conformance - libmpeg2 is able to decode all mpeg streams that conform to + certain restrictions. For streams that follow these restrictions, libmpeg2 is + probably 100% conformant to the mpeg standards - and there's a pretty + extensive test suite to check this. + . + * Speed - there has been huge efforts there, and libmpeg2 is probably the + fastest library around for what it does. + . + * Portability - most of the code is written in C, and when platform-specific + optimizations are used, there always is a generic C routine to fall back on. + This should be portable to all architectures - at least we have heard reports + from people running this code on x86, ppc, sparc, arm and sh4. + . + * Reuseability - libmpeg2 is not intended to include any project-specific + code, but it should still include enough features to be used by very diverse + projects. Package: mpeg2dec Architecture: any diff -ur old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/copyright mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/copyright --- old/mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/copyright 2002-08-23 17:13:37.000000000 +0200 +++ mpeg2dec-0.2.1/debian/copyright 2002-08-23 16:56:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -7,23 +7,16 @@ Upstream Authors: Aaron Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michel Lespinasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + other contributors listed in + http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/authors.html -Copyright: - - This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or - modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either - version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. +Mailing list information: - This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - Lesser General Public License for more details. + http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/lists.html - You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public - License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA - -On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General -Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'. +Copyright: +You are free to distribute this software under the terms of +the GNU General Public License. +On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General +Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL file. > The GStreamer packages are going to be uploaded into experimential in > the next day or so and I had intended to just ship the libmpeg2 stuff > along with it. Do you mind if I do this? Last time I touched the > packages was 5 months ago so I think they are stable enough. Nice to hear about GSreamer coming. please could you upload libmpeg sooner? there are other packages that need it, like drip (ITP #156287). thanks! -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
