On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
If you are not happy with the precompiled version (it doesn't have avi support, because libavifile is not cross platform) let me
this is something i don't quite understand. libavifile is not cross-platform. ok. the gem-sources are. ok. the gem-binaries are not. is there no possibility to add platform specific depends ? looking at packages.debian.org i noticed that - for instance - gem depends on libc6.1 for alpha/ia64 and libc6 for other architectures. so i guess it would be possible to have a (build-)depend for libavifile on i386 only. (this would especially be useful, as i have noticed major problems with libquicktime: a) arbitrarily freezes on 2.6-systems; b) wrong build-configuration does not detect the plugin-path)
I think it is not a good idea to work around bugs or problems in other packages. What should be fixed (or ported to other architectures in the case of libavifile) are the broken packages.
Anyhow, I am going to think about a solution how to have libavifile support at least under i386.
Guenter
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes
know. I will do my best to make good packages. As long as noboy complains I assume the packages are working perfectly.