[needs-packaging] S.M.I.L.E

[Matthias Klumpp]

Description: This app is a slideshow Maker, like ManSlide. The author is the same of ManSlide and ManDvd and he wants to replace ManSlide with Smile.
Homepage: http://smile.tuxfamily.org/
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This package has no special reasons why it MUST be published in Jaunty, but it would be nice if the users have this great slideshow-creator in the repositories.
Smile works fantastic on Jaunty 9.04 AMD64, it compiles succesfull on all needed platforms and won't create any trouble.

The package is submissed to REVU and has no lintian issures. At time it has no advocations: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/smile

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Is manslide abandoned upstream? If not, I'm more inclined to ship manslide for Jaunty and prepare a package for Karmic instead.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

is this a case of the same package renamed or something that is truly new?

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

Scott, Smile is truly new, it is not a new release of manslide.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Then it should wait for Karmic.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Unsubscribing motu-release and adjusting bug to match needs-packaging standards. This will be processed in Karmic.

[Andrea Gasparini (gaspa)]

Debian has an ITP as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/506920

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

I already uploaded the new release of Smile to REVU. It may be present in Karmic if it is good enought ;-)
You can use my getDeb or PPA build to get the Smile release now.

[Andrea Gasparini (gaspa)]

Matthias Klumpp spiffera, alle Wednesday 29 April 2009 circa:
> I already uploaded the new release of Smile to REVU. It may be present
> in Karmic if it is good enought ;-) You can use my getDeb or PPA build
> to get the Smile release now.

Ok, you may see a package on my ppa as well.
I'm telling that perhaps we could comaintain it, as I've done some thing
different from your package.

Otherwise, could became a complete hell, having two different package in
both distributions.

Let me know.
bye!
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[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

Your package is split in a binary and a data file. It also contains a patch I haven't implemented.
I'm not a Motu myself, I only contribute new packages or patches for review at time or develop some aditional helper applications for Ubuntu, so I'm not able to maintain the package. (I'll try to become a Motu if I have more experience in creating Debian packages)
Your package is more professional, but my is more recent. You have created a smile and a smile-data package, but I think the -data package is not needed because the data (images etc.) is linked to the Smile binary by default.
What is the reason for the source-code patch you apply? My package is available at GetDeb at time, and until now no user has found a bug (maybe this is fixed in the newer Smile version?)
Having two packages which to exactly the same is really no way to solve this. Because you have more experience in creating high-quality Ubuntu/Debian packages (as I see on your Wiki-page), I think you should decide how to proceed. If I can do somethink to get this package(s) into the repos, please let me know! (maybe per Mail to keep this bug-comment lines clean)
Regards
    Matthias Klumpp