[needs-packaging] Aegisub - video subtitler

[Tree MendUs]

URL:
http://www.aegisub.org/

Description:
Aegisub is an advanced subtitle editor for Windows, and UNIX-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and BSD. It is open source software and free for any use.

Aegisub natively works with the Advanced SubStation Alpha format (aptly abbreviated ASS) which allows for many advanced effects in the subtitles, apart from just basic timed text. Aegisub's goal is to support using these advanced functions with ease.

License: BSD (but ruled by GPL)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

I have made aegisub packages available for Karmic Koala through a PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~riccetn/+archive/aegisub

Feel free to use those packages and tell me if you think I should improve anything

[Jure Merhar (jmerhar)]

Hi, Rickard,

Thanks for the repository, but could you please make one for jaunty as well, if it's not too much trouble? :)

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

It really depends, on ffmpeg if we can get this into maverick (10.10). Currently aegisub (or more precisely ffmpegsource) depends on snapshots form the ffmpeg trunk series. This means we will need to wait for ffmpeg 0.6 before any official packages of aegisub can be uploaded.

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

Uploaded to REVU:
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/aegisub

[Orionds (shamrock-d)]

After installing from this PPA, whenever I try to open Aegisub in 10.04 or Mint 9, it crashes. This happens in both my PC and notebook.

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

lör 2010-08-07 klockan 19:15 +0000 skrev Orionds:
> After installing from this PPA, whenever I try to open Aegisub in 10.04
> or Mint 9, it crashes. This happens in both my PC and notebook.
>

Do you get any error message pop-ups, or can you see any relevant error
messages in ~/.xsession-errors

I may not be so responsive the nearest weeks due to personal matters
please bare with me.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Please update package in PPA. At this moment this is not possible to install it on Oneiric (libavformat52 is not available anymore).

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Looks like Rickard Närström doesn't use their gmail account anymore and probably this Launchpad account too. I hope someone else will set up Aegisub PPA or package it for Ubuntu or Debian repository.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Situation around Aegisub for Linux is getting worse - this is really important. If you care - please read whole message.

1. http://blog.aegisub.org/2012/02/219-released.html
Aegisub 2.1.9 released with many fixes for Linux version (with more stable audio playback on Linux, Hi10P support, etc.) but developers doesn't provide binary for Linux: http://www.aegisub.org/
> Currently there are no plans to make prebuilt binaries for Linux systems available.
The reason is:
> Q: Where are the Linux binaries
> A: People actually used those? Those static binaries we offered for the 2.1.8 release were a bit of a hassle to use, and it turned out they weren't very flexible either. (In particular, because they were built with an older version of wxWidgets, all menu bars suddenly disappeared when they were run under Ubuntu with Unity.)

2. http://blog.aegisub.org/2012/02/bit-of-statistics.html
Looks like developers really believe peoples use internal Aegisub update checker. Personally I doesn't understand how that may make sense since Linux users usually doesn't use update checkers in software, binary of Aegisub 2.1.8 doesn't work for Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 (both of binary from web-site and from Rickard Närström PPA), and the another important fact: new version is out around one time per year.

So what we can do:

> Currently there are no plans to make prebuilt binaries for Linux systems available. These might get built if there is sufficient demand.
Quote from http://www.aegisub.org/
> If there is enough demand we might try to make some new ones available, but don't count on it. Ask your distribution's packagers to make some nice packages, it should be quite possible now.
Quote from http://blog.aegisub.org/2012/02/219-released.html

As we see in case of Aegisub way "ask your distribution's packagers to make some nice packages" doesn't work. We wait already for three years now. We may ask Aegisub developers put binary build of Aegisub to official web-site (because they said "If there is enough demand we might try to make some new ones available" and "these might get built if there is sufficient demand."), or do something better - set up official Aegisub Team PPA on Launchpad with stable current version and unstable builds of next version. To cover other Linux distributions Open Build Service may be used.

I propose to everyone who subscribed to this bug to contact with Aegisub developers and ask they provide better Linux support, at least on installation stage - binary for Linux, official PPA, packages for other distributions. Not many Linux users may come thru "compilation" this days so wrong decision of Aegisub developers will make Aegisub is unavailable for most of Aegisub Linux users.

We all may change situation but only if YOU take action now!

[Sebastian Reichel (sre)]

Hi,

I just uploaded aegisub 2.1.9 into Debian unstable:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aegisub/news/20120317T131713Z.html

-- Sebastian

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Deb-packages of Aegisub 3 now available on web-site: http://blog.aegisub.org/2013/06/aegisub-303-released.html