[ubuntu-studio-devel] DVD authoring software

[Len Ovens]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Ross Gammon wrote:

> On 03/10/2016 08:23 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
>> devede is no longer a part of the ubuntu repos being old and suffering
>> bitrot as well, but there is a rewrite called devedeng that is up to
>> date and uses modern versions of GTK for example. While it is available
>> from a PPA it does not seem to be in the debian or ubuntu repos. If it
>> is any good getting it there would be a first step.
>
> devedeng is already in the archive (Debian and Ubuntu), confusingly
> keeping the old devede name. See changelog for 4.3-1:
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/devede/news/20151107T153503Z.html

Even more confusing is that:
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/devede/
says the last version is in 13.10 and:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devede
shows versions beyond that :P

>> Bombono has been suggested to me and is available in our repos. I have
...

> Bombono-dvd is in Ubuntu, an attempt was made to get it into Debian, but
> it seems to have stalled for some reason. Alessio was maintaining it,
> but I know he is very busy these days. So if we want to seed it, we
> would probably have to start maintaining it ourselves, or try and finish
> getting it into the Debian Multimedia Team.

Gaa.

> There are some other potentials on this page (but it takes some sifting
> through):
> http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/video

Basically the same info there. devede looks like the the best choice at 
this point. (best as in at least it seems includable)

Comments?

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Len Ovens
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