Package: wnpp I'm looking for a new maintainer or maintainers for the cplay package. cplay is a front-end for various audio players written in Python. The package itself is in a fairly good shape but the main problem is that upstream development has basically been stagnant for years. The new maintainer has to be proficient in Python and must be willing to put in work into upstream maintenance. The upstream TODO list is long and hasn't changed very much over the last years - just like the application itself.
cplay basically does what it's supposed to do, but there are many areas where it could improve and also some area where it simply doesn't meet today's demands of audio players anymore; for example, it doesn't do UTF-8. It converts UTF-8 strings from OGG ID tags internally to ASCII (ISO Latin1) because various functions don't cope with UTF-8. Someone will need to fix this, as well as some other things. There is also disagreement between upstream and me about how to handle a potential security issue related to /tmp handling (see #255768). I've introduced a patch in the Debian package which was not and won't be applied upstream. While it fixes the issues, it raises some other minor problems... the new maintainer will have to work with upstream to find a solution acceptable for both upstream and Debian. There are a couple of bugs open, mostly feature requests. The biggest problem at the moment is the lack of UTF-8 support. However, as mentioned above, the new maintainer must be interested in putting in real development time over longer periods and not just to fix this particular problem. If you're interested, please get in contact (mail the bug report and me) so we can discuss this. I still use cplay because of lack of another simple text-based alternative. There's a program very similar to cplay as part of the http://www.musicpd.org/ effort (ncmpc), but the major problem of that is that it's based on a client-server system so you cannot easily play local files. Information about the package: Package: cplay Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 232 Maintainer: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.49-6 Depends: python Recommends: vorbis-tools, python-pyvorbis Suggests: mpg321 | madplay | splay | mpg123, speex, mikmod, xmp, sox, python-id3 (>= 1.2-1) Conflicts: madplay (<< 0.15) Filename: pool/main/c/cplay/cplay_1.49-6_all.deb Size: 40328 MD5sum: 500520735ae3906fae500589f71a0be3 Description: A front-end for various audio players cplay provides a user-friendly interface to play various types of sound files. It offers a simple file list with which you can navigate around looking for audio files and a playlist to which you can add the files you want to play. cplay can play the songs in your playlist in repeat or random mode, and offers the option to store the playlist. . Currently, the following audio formats are supported: MP3 (through madplay, mpg321 or splay), Ogg Vorbis (through ogg123), MOD and other module formats (through mikmod or xmp), WAV (through sox) and Speex (through speex). The upstream location is http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
