Debian Bug report logs - #431915
Please add projectM to package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "niko" <niko@ornia.hampshire.edu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please add projectM to package

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:48:25 -0400

Package: libvisual-plugins
Version: 0.4.0.dfsg.1-1
Severity: important

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projectM is a reimplementation of Milkdrop under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X 
utilising OpenGL instead of Direct3D, which restricted Milkdrop to one 
operating system and even application: Windows and Winamp.  It (and 
Milkdrop) is perhaps the highest quality and most intricate audio 
visualisation software and Debian would benefit immensely to have it 
included in the libvisual-plugins package, especially as that would 
allow for Amarok users (among others) to use the plugin immediately 
without having to compile from source which is an intimidating process 
for many new users (a lot of whom from personal experience love projectM 
and see it as a huge incentive to not use iTunes and the proprietary 
operating systems it runs on).

The projectM website is here: http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/

Please update the package to include projectM!

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.18-4-xen-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        mirror.home-dn.net
  500 unstable        http.us.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends       (Version) | Installed
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Message #10 received at 431915@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: DarkMageZ <evilgod69@gmail.com>

To: 431915@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Not that easy

Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:58:57 +1000

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It's not quite that easy. The libvisual projectm visualization depends
on libprojectm which is not part of Debian and even if it were, we'd
have to hack up the libvisual-plugins package even more to add
libvisual-projectm to it.

It would make more sense to wait for the Ubuntu guys to get libprojectm
& libvisual-projectm into their repositories. Alternatively someone
could take their attempted source packaging and fix/tidy it up and
import it into Debian. :)

libprojectm
http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=5446

libvisual-projectm (depends on libprojectm)
http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=5447

Maybe once libvisual-projectm is in Debian we could add a recommend on
it to libvisual-plugins.

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Message #15 received at 431915@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "niko" <niko@ornia.hampshire.edu>

To: 431915@bugs.debian.org

Subject: 3 final packages or 2?

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:27:31 -0400

So what would be the best way to go about it?  Should there be a 
separate libprojectm package, and the libvisual-projectm visualisation 
be integrated into the libvisual-plugins package?  If so, 
libvisual-plugins would have to be updated to not only include 
libvisual-projectm, but also depend on the separate libprojectm package.

I'm pretty sure it would be suboptimal to have separate libprojectm, 
libvisual-projectm, and libvisual-plugins packages.  The latter two I 
would think should be merged together in libvisual-plugins and depend on 
libprojectm.  Is there any reason this approach should be shied away 
from in favour of three separate packages?

Message #20 received at 431915@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: DarkMageZ <evilgod69@gmail.com>

To: 431915@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#431915: 3 final packages or 2?

Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:59:49 +1000

if libvisual-projectm & libvisual-plugins packages were merged into
one... then that would require someone making a source tarball with them
pre-merged. i doubt anyone is willing to maintain that?

keeping them separate makes them easier for people to bother maintaining
in the future.

Message #27 received at 431915-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>

To: 431915-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#431915: fixed in libvisual-projectm 1.0-1

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:21:22 +0000

Source: libvisual-projectm
Source-Version: 1.0-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libvisual-projectm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libvisual-projectm_1.0-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/libv/libvisual-projectm/libvisual-projectm_1.0-1.diff.gz
libvisual-projectm_1.0-1.dsc
  to pool/main/libv/libvisual-projectm/libvisual-projectm_1.0-1.dsc
libvisual-projectm_1.0-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libv/libvisual-projectm/libvisual-projectm_1.0-1_i386.deb
libvisual-projectm_1.0.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/libv/libvisual-projectm/libvisual-projectm_1.0.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 431915@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk> (supplier of updated libvisual-projectm package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:45:12 -0600
Source: libvisual-projectm
Binary: libvisual-projectm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>
Changed-By: William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>
Description: 
 libvisual-projectm - libvisual module for projectM
Closes: 431915
Changes: 
 libvisual-projectm (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Initial release based on a package by Richard James Edmands (Closes: #431915).
     - added Richard James Edmands as co-maintainer.
Files: 
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 33c7a0eda48ff56e3ccbe7090b431e82 20490 sound optional libvisual-projectm_1.0.orig.tar.gz
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