[MIR] cheese
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Cheese |
Fix Released
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Critical
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cheese (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli |
Bug Description
1. Availability: Has been packaged in Ubuntu & Debian for years; the latest version is in Saucy
2. Rationale: This blocks bug 853994. While the installer allows using the webcam to set the user picture, Ubuntu does not provide a way to do that after install. Both gnome-control-
Now that laptops are more popular than desktops, it may be worth shipping Cheese by default but we at least want the webcam support in System Settings and Contacts.
3. Security: No security vulnerability history
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4. QA:
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5. UI standards: Yes, translated and has a valid .desktop.
6. Dependencies: I believe all are in main except gnome-video-effects which is MIR bug 1189173.
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7. Standards Compliance: 3.9.3
8. Maintenance: Basically in sync with Debian except that we don't need to use the "bad" gstreamer plugins. Maintained by the Debian GNOME Team.
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Changed in cheese (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks) |
Changed in cheese (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in cheese: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in cheese: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This seems totally legit once gnome-video-effects is in main.
However, the upstream source doesn't ship the FDL license needed in help/, mind talking with upstream about fixing that? Once done, I'm happy to approve it once the version in ubuntu has the license file and gnome-video-effects acked.
The rest of the package and lintian looks fine.