** Description changed: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS" Package: mgp Version: 1.13a+upstream20090219-11 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug mgpembed is a tool to embed media in an mgp project. It is part of the mgp package. Since it is very old, written in old style perl, it doesn't work anymore (code rot). This is the output when running: $ mgpembed syntax error at /usr/bin/mgpembed line 24, near "do Getopts(" syntax error at /usr/bin/mgpembed line 27, near "do usage(" syntax error at /usr/bin/mgpembed line 47, near "do readfile(" syntax error at /usr/bin/mgpembed line 119, near "do readfile(" Execution of /usr/bin/mgpembed aborted due to compilation errors. - I have had to tinker a bit with an already existing patch to replace a - few lines in the code and I got it to work. + I had to tinker a bit with an existing patch to replace a few lines in + the code to get it working. - I tested and attached the patch. - Hopefully it is of any help. + I tested it on some old presentations and it works. + Here is the patch, hopefully it will land in an update soon.
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