[Kdenlive-devel] Kdenlive packaging policies

[opensourcecat]

On lunedì 15 dicembre 2008 10:00:12 Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> I don't see many distributions providing efforts to package Kdenlive
> cleanly, with all latest MLT and ffmpeg codecs, appart for Marillat
> Debian-multimedia and Gentoo exceptions.

I had a couple of e-mails with Toni, the Kdenlive packager for packam project 
witch provides kdenlive to most opensuse distributions.
He says that it can be done to add a kdenlive-unstable, mlt-unstable and 
mlt++-unstable packages and updates will only be a matter of free time of the 
packager. -unstable and released packages will be mutually exclusive.

The only problem, which i didn't completely understand, is talking about mlt-
unstable libraries which should be different from stable ones. Follows what he 
said:
***
[...]
And the kdenlive-unstable will Requires: mlt-unstable* and mlt++-unstable and 
is mutally eclusive to kdenlive. The only problem we should be aware: I would 
prefer that the so-names of the unstable mlt-packages are different to the 
released ones. Otherwise it would be harder to keep them mutually eclusive.
***

I said that i will let him know when the packager's page on kdenlive.org will 
be ready with sugested compilation flag and such.

regards


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