Hi,
Of course you guys wants to know if building for the Debian Multimedia
Team really helps Ubuntu too. So I asked some questions on the Debian
Multimedia Teams list. I think the conclusion is, yes if you build
packages for the Debian Multimedia Team is will hit Ubuntu and it is
very easy to install or rebuild the Debian package for Ubuntu! :)
So the best thing you could do is joining the Debian Multimedia Teams
mailinglist for communication and working together!
See below
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Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com writes:
I think building packages for Debian could also improve Debian
derivatives, like Ubuntu, for multimedia production. And Ubuntu users
could contribute to the Debian multimedia team by maintaining packages.
It would be nice if Debian and Ubuntu users could have some kind of
working together to improve Debian and Ubuntu for multimedia production.
Yes, Good idea! That's what I've intended when I've created the
MOTUMedia team. Unfortunately, the only active people were slomo,
crimsun and myself. :-(
Ubuntu users could contribute to the Debian Multimedia Team to maintain
packages, but they also want to be sure that their packages they make
for Debian will hit Ubuntu of course.
We already have too many packages for too little manpower. So any help
is more than welcome!
So I was wondering:
1) how can I maintain a multimedia package for Debian and be sure that
it hits Ubuntu (Studio) too?
I'd say get that package imported in a git branch on
git.debian.org. Distributed development is ideal for this usecase.
2) how can I make a Ubuntu package from an Debian package?
3) how can I make an Debian package from an Ubuntu package?
Ubuntu and Debian packages share the same format. Ideally there are no
differences between the debian and the ubuntu package.
For packages that need to have some difference, I'd suggest to maintain
the ubuntu package in a git branch. That way merging back and forth
remains easy.
4) how could we improve this 'working together'?
Subscribe to this mailing list, send patches to existing packages, get
the packages accepted, make sure that packages from debian are kept
up-to-date in ubuntu.
I already do that for the ubuntu ffmpeg and mplayer packages, and I
start to feel a bit lonley :-)
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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