Remove freemix from precise archive

[Julian Taylor]

freemix is not functional due to dependency on gnome-video-thumbnailer which does not exist anymore, also when replacing it with an existing thumbnailer it does not work properly. E.g. I got it to crash with this by jut clicking around a bit:

File "/usr/share/freemix/engine.py", line 102, in OnDynamicPad
    pad.link(self.colorspace.get_pad("sink"))
gst.LinkError: <enum GST_PAD_LINK_WAS_LINKED of type GstPadLinkReturn>

The package is of very bad quality installing files directly into /usr/share/pyshared, causing upgrade failures like bug 882297.
The last upload was 2009, and upstream seems dead since then too.

I propose to remove the binary and source package from precise.
It has no rdepends and pretty low popcon vote.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

ACKed.

[Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá (luisbg)]

I'm the upstream of this package. Didn't knew gnome-video-thumbnailer wasn't around anymore. I will fix the code to use the new convenience gstreamer API to get thumbnails.

Sorry for the problems.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

Will you also update the package?
This would mean change from the deprecated pycentral to dh_python2 and installing its files as private modules or at least in a subfolder.

[Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá (luisbg)]

Julian, would you have time to help me with updating the package how you explain?

Thanks :)

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

the upgrade failure bugs go back to 2009 without any reaction.
I'm willing to help, but will you take better care of the package in future?

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Removed this. Can be readded if the problems with this package are solved.