• RFS - reintroduction of the Advene (video annotation) package - ITP #10

    From Olivier Aubert@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 28 00:00:01 2022
    Hi

    Advene[1] is a video annotation software (GPL), developed with python, Gtk
    and Gstreamer. It was present in older Debian releases [2], but got
    removed some years ago due to major migrations (python2->python3, 
    Gtk2->Gtk3, Gstreamer0.10->Gstreamer1.0).

    Since then, the application has been updated and is now in good
    shape to be reintroduced into Debian. The updated Debian package[3],
    migrated from cdbs to dh_python, has been used/tested for at least 3
    years (distributed through a private repository[4]). As per [5]/[6]
    a ITP bug has been filed: #1014535

    It was previously maintained under the Multimedia Team umbrella, but
    the there seems to be no more interested dev there with time to sponsor this package there, and I was hinted that the Python team may be more
    appropriate.

    I am looking for help/sponsorship from the Python Team to help
    getting the package back in Debian. I am ready to be part of 
    the Python Team  (I have read the policy.rst and accept it)
    and do most of the work if needed, but I would welcome
    guidance wrt the current practices of python packages.
    Anyone interested?

    Happy hacking! Best,
    Olivier Aubert

    [1] https://www.advene.org/
    [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/advene
    [3] https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/advene
    [4] http://advene.org/download.html#linux
    [5] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs
    [6] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage

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