mlt has an incomplete/incorrect tarball

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi all,

During my testing this evening of kdenlive 22.08, I found two issues:

kdenlive now needs a recommends on mediainfo. No big deal, bug filed (LP: #1987934[1]), 
I can practically take care of that in my sleep.

However, it also needs a module in mlt: glaxnimate. Upon investigation, glaxnimate 
requires a build-dep on qt5base-dev and a build flag enabled (-DMOD_GLAXNIMATE=ON). 
It was at this point that I discovered that the glaxnimate submodule is *entirely missing* 
from the source tarball, and that the wrong tarball was grabbed by the Debian maintainer 
upstream from https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/tag/v7.8.0[2]. It seems as 
though the maintainer grabbed the github tagged source code tarball (released June 
22nd) and not the intended tarball with all submodules, which came later (July 3rd).

Since this tarball is obviously incorrect, how do we fix this situation? The maintainer will 
obviously have to be alerted to the error, but that doesn't solve the immediate problem 
with versioning in the archive. As this is a universe package, I'm more than happy to take 
care of it as long as I know how to version it.

I can take care of all the necessary steps to write a bug report on this, but this seemed like 
a unique situation that I needed some advice on first, and seemed like it needed more 
explanation than I can provide on IRC.

Thanks,
Erich

-- 
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Member - Ubuntu Community Council

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[1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1987934
[2] https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/releases/tag/v7.8.0
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