Debian Bug report logs - #880644
libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

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

From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:26:05 +0100

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

Message #10 received at 880644@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

To: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>, 880644@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#880644: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 14:12:56 +0100

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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

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Message #15 received at 880644@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

To: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>, 880644@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#880644: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:33:39 +0100

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.

Message #20 received at 880644-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

To: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>, 880644-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#880644: libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 01:37:23 +0100

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On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:33:39 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:

> >> libvideo-capture-v4l-perl ships an internal copy of the Frequencies module, but
> >> it can use the Debian package instead.

> > Interestingly, there is no libvideo-frequencies-perl package in
> > Debian, just in Ubuntu.
[..]

> sorry for the noise, I agree, that Ubuntu should remove the delta.

No problem; closing this bug now.


Cheers,
gregor

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