Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga and x264 in Debian main

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 20 mai 2008 à 11:00 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Luca Capello wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:38:52 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> >> Matthias Schneider wrote:
> >>> --- Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> schrieb am So, 18.5.2008:
> >>>> 1. I grouped all libpt-snapshot-plugins-* packages into one package,
> >>>> libpt-snapshot-plugins.
> >>> Is this a good idea? I think stable has many separate plugins, since
> >>> each plugin has different dependencies, at least I think so...
> >> In Kilian's debs and in actual debian ones, all libpt-plugins-* depend
> >> on the same packages.  So it should be ok.
> > 
> > Mmm, I haven't checked the .deb yet, but are you telling me that
> > 
> > =====
> > luca gismo:~$ apt-cache search libpt-1.10.10-plugins
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa - Portable Windows Library Audio Plugin for the ALSA Interface
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-avc - PWLib Video Plugin for IEEE1394 (FireWire) AVC devices
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-dc - PWLib Video Plugin for IEEE1394 (Firewire) DC Devices
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-oss - Portable Windows Library Audio Plugins for the OSS Interface
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l - Portable Windows Library Video Plugin for Video4Linux
> > libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l2 - Portable Windows Library Video Plugin for Video4Linux v2
> > luca gismo:~$ 
> > =====
> > 
> > will be one single package?  Please avoid that, at least because it's
> > useless to install a V4L plugin when your webcam supports V4L2 only or
> > having another OSS application when you want to get rid of it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Between :
> 
> - having 6 packages, so wonder which one to choose (for ex. in my case 
> by default v4l was installed, afterwards I saw that uvc works only in 
> v4l2, reinstall v4l2, remove v4l...), complexify the dependencies etc.
> 
> - having 1 package, with each plugin having about 150kB (IIRC)
> 
> do you still choose the first?  I think "simpler is better", but if you 
> really think it's better to have several packages, I will modify it.

I think having avc, dc and oss as separate packages might be a good idea
as they are specific plugins that few people need.
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