On 1/11/2011 5:10, Mario Torre wrote: > Hello all! > > I am in the process to package a simple application for creating short > movies from a set of photos. > > The application is called PhotoFilmStrip and can be found here: > > http://www.photofilmstrip.org/ > > I initially submitted to RPM Fusion because of the dependency on > mencoder, but a reviewer from RPM Fusion noticed that the application > can be used without this dependecy, although it cannot output (render) > the movie. > > This means that we can include in in Fedora, but keep a meta-package > with the appropriate dependecy on mencoder to enable the rendering. > > I'm not entirely sure how this application could be useful if we remove > the render functionality, though, as it's pretty limited otherwise and > the risk is to give users the wrong perception that a fedora package is > simply broken. > > There is also another problem, without mencoder, when clicking to the > render box, I get a stack trace instead of a warning to install > mencoder, so, at the very minimum, the app should be patched to allow a > nice dialog instead of a scaring python stack trace. > > I will try to get in touch with the author to see if he is interested in > fixing this behaviour (and perhaps if he wants to add support to WebM > and Theora), but I would like to know what is the current guideline for > issues such as this? Since the program is unable to perform its primary function without mencoder I'm pretty sure the following guideline [1] applies: "...packages which are not functional or useful without code or packages from third-party sources are not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora." [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_bits -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
