0.4.1-1 deb update

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0.4.1-1 deb update

1 files changed, 190 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 3f879e15..88e6f91a 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: libs
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: David I. Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu>
 Build-Depends: BUILDDEPS
-Standards-Version: 3.5.6
+Standards-Version: 3.5.7
 
 Package: gstreamer-plugins
 Architecture: any
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ Depends: gstreamer-plugin-apps, gstreamer-plugin-libs, gstreamer-a52dec, gstream
 Description: Pseudo package for all GStreamer plugins
  Pseudo package which depends on all current GStreamer plugin packages.
  .
- NOTE: This package depends on many other packages.
+ This package enables the use of all current GStreamer plugins.
+ .
+ NOTE: This package depends on many other packages.  Installing this
+ package could also cause many other sub-dependencies to be installed.
 
 Package: gstreamer-plugin-apps
 Architecture: any
@@ -31,7 +34,9 @@ Section: libs
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: Various GStreamer library plugins
  Various GStreamer library plugins
- Other plugins load these at runtime
+ .
+ GStreamer plugins load these at runtime as needed.
+ Other plugin pacakges will depend on this package if it is needed.
  .
  gstaudio
  gstidct
@@ -43,237 +48,361 @@ Architecture: any
 Section: devel
 Depends: gstreamer-plugin-libs
 Description: Development files for various GStreamer library plugins
- Development files for various GStreamer library plugins
- Includes support for library plugins found in gstreamer-plugin-libs
+ Development files for the GStreamer library plugins found in
+ the gstreamer-plugin-libs package.  Install this package if you
+ are developing plugins that use the following library plugins:
+ .
+ gstaudio
+ gstidct
+ gstriff
+ gstresample
 
 Package: gstreamer-a52dec
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-core-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-core-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: ATSC A/52 audio decoder plugin for GStreamer
- ATSC A/52 audio decoder plugin for GStreamer
- Uses liba52.
+ ATSC A/52 audio decoder plugin for GStreamer based on liba52
+ .
+ This plugin enables decoding of audio commonly found on DVDs and in other
+ MPEG streams.
  .
  http://liba52.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-aa
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: AA-lib plugin for GStreamer
  AA-lib plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables video streams to be displayed as text.
+ .
  http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
 
 Package: gstreamer-alsa
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-core-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-core-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: ALSA plugin for GStreamer
  ALSA plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables the usage of ALSA supported devices for input and output
+ audio streams.
+ .
  http://www.alsa-project.org/
 
 Package: gstreamer-arts
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: aRts plugin for GStreamer
  Analog Realtime Synthesizer (aRts) plugin for GStreamer
  .
- http://www.arts-projects.org/
+ This plugin enables the use of arts processing in a GStreamer pipeline.
+ .
+ http://www.arts-project.org/
 
 Package: gstreamer-artsd
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: aRtsd plugin for GStreamer
  Analog Realtime Synthesizer daemon (aRtsd) plugin for GStreamer
  .
- http://www.arts-projects.org/
+ This plugin enables audio output to artsd.
+ .
+ http://www.arts-project.org/
 
 Package: gstreamer-audiofile
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-plugin-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-plugin-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: AudioFile plugin for GStreamer
- AudioFile plugin for GStreamer
+ AudioFile plugin for GStreamer based on libaudiofile
+ .
+ This plugin enables the processing of audio data from formats supported by
+ libaudiofile including AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data.
+ .
+ http://oss.sgi.com/projects/audiofile/
 
 Package: gstreamer-avifile
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: avifile plugin for GStreamer
  avifile plugin for GStreamer
  .
- Allows the use of win32 codecs
+ This plugin uses libavifile to read and write compressed streams.  avifile
+ supports many libraries that are natively supported with other GStreamer
+ plugins.  It also supports AVI files (Indeo Video, DivX :-), etc.) under
+ x86 Linux through the use of win32 codecs.
+ .
+ http://avifile.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-cdparanoia
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: cdparanoia plugin for GStreamer
  cdparanoia plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables the use of a cd player as an audio stream source
+ .
  http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
 
 Package: gstreamer-colorspace
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: colorspace conversion plugin for GStreamer
  colorspace conversion plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin converts a video stream from one colorspace format to another.
+ This is often used to convert from a native stream format to a format that
+ can be efficiently displayed.
 
 Package: gstreamer-dv
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: DV plugin for GStreamer
  DV plugin for GStreamer based on libdv.
  .
+ This plugin enables the use of DV formatted video.  The Quasar DV Codec
+ (libdv) is a software decoder for DV format video, as defined by the
+ IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M standards. DV is the encoding format used by
+ consumer-grade digital camcorders.
+ .
  http://libdv.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-dvd
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: DVD plugin for GStreamer
  DVD plugins for GStreamer based on libdvdread and libdvdnav.
  .
+ This plugin enables the use of a DVD player as an audio and video input.
+ .
  http://dvd.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-esd
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin for GStreamer
  Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the use of ESD for audio output.
 
 Package: gstreamer-festival
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: Festival speech synthesis plugin for GStreamer
  Festival speech synthesis plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the use of a festival server to perform speech
+ synthesis.
 
 Package: gstreamer-flac
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: FLAC plugin for GStreamer
  Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables lossless audio compression and decompression with
+ the FLAC library.
+ .
  http://flac.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-gconf
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
-Description: GConf plugin and support for GStreamer
- GConf plugin and support for GStreamer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
+Description: GConf support for GStreamer
+ GConf support for GStreamer
+ .
+ GStreamer applications can use GConf to support persistent and/or shared
+ settings such as a default user specified audio and video sink.
+ .
+ Includes a library, development files, and a schema.
  .
  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
 
 Package: gstreamer-gnomevfs
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer
  Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables data stream input from a wide variety of sources.
+ Use this plugin for access to HTTP, FTP, file, gzip, cdda, WebDAV, and
+ many other data streams.
+ .
+ http://www.gnu.org/directory/libs/GnomeVFS.html
 
 Package: gstreamer-gsm
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
-Description: gsm plugin for GStreamer
- gsm plugin for GStreamer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
+Description: GSM plugin for GStreamer
+ GSM plugin for GStreamer based on libgsm
+ .
+ This plugin enables the use of the European GSM 06.10 provisional standard
+ for full-rate speech transcoding, prI-ETS 300 036.
 
 Package: gstreamer-http
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
-Description: http plugin for GStreamer
- http plugin for GStreamer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
+Description: HTTP plugin for GStreamer
+ HTTP plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the input of data from a HTTP source.
+ .
+ Try the Gnome VFS plugin in the gstreamer-gnomevfs package for
+ a more flexible data source.
 
 Package: gstreamer-jack
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
-Description: jack plugin for GStreamer
- jack plugin for GStreamer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
+Description: JACK plugin for GStreamer
+ JACK plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the use of the JACK low-latency audio server
+ for audio stream input and output.
  .
  http://jackit.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-jpeg
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
-Description: jpeg plugin for GStreamer
- jpeg plugin for GStreamer
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
+Description: JPEG plugin for GStreamer
+ JPEG plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the output of JPEG images from a video stream.
 
 Package: gstreamer-mad
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer
  MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables the decoding of MPEG audio streams.  It currently
+ supports the all three audio layers of the MPEG 1 standard (Layer I,
+ Layer II, and Layer III, the latter often colloquially known as MP3.)
+ .
  http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/
 
 Package: gstreamer-mikmod
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: MikMod decoder plugin for GStreamer
  MikMod decoder plugin for GStreamer.
- MikMod is able to decode the IT, XM, S3M, MTM, 669, STM, ULT, FAR,
- MED, AMF, DSM, IMF, GDM, STX, OKT and of course MOD module formats.
+ .
+ This plugin enables the decoding of various module formats into an
+ audio stream.  MikMod is able to decode the IT, XM, S3M, MTM, 669,
+ STM, ULT, FAR, MED, AMF, DSM, IMF, GDM, STX, OKT and of course MOD
+ module formats.
  .
  http://www.mikmod.org/
 
 Package: gstreamer-misc
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-core-libs, gstreamer-plugin-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-plugin-libs, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: Collection of various GStreamer plugins
  Collection of various GStreamer plugins
  .
+ This collection of plugins is useful to process many types of stream.
+ You most certainly want to install this package.
+ .
+ A short list of features in this package:
+  * a/mulaw
+  * audioscale
+  * au/cdxa/mp1video/mpegaudio/wavparse
+  * avi/qtdemux
+  * avimux
+  * cutter
+  * deinterlace
+  * EffecTV (various plugins)
+  * synaesthesia
+  * goom
+  * flxdec
+  * int/float conversion
+  * LADSPA
+  * mono/stereo conversion
+  * mpeg stream support
+  * mpeg1 system encoder
+  * mpeg1/2 encoder
+  * mpeg1/2 types
+  * mp3 type detection
+  * UDP support
+  * video scaler
+  * volume meter/control
+  * v4l support
+  * VCD support
+  * cdplayer
+  * videocrop
+  * videotestsrc
+  * mixmatrix
+  * passthrough!
+  * and more...
+ .
  These plugins have few if any external dependencies.
 
 Package: gstreamer-mpeg2dec
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder plugin for GStreamer
- MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder plugin for GStreamer
- Uses libmpeg2
+ MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder plugin for GStreamer based on libmpeg2
+ .
+ This plugin enables the decoding of MPEG1 and MPEG2 video streams.
+ This type of video is found on DVDs, in VOBs, and as standalone
+ streams.
  .
  http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
 
 Package: gstreamer-oss
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: OSS plugin for GStreamer
  OSS plugin for GStreamer
+ .
+ This plugin enables the use of OSS supported hardware for audio input
+ and output.
 
 Package: gstreamer-sdl
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: SDL videosink plugin for GStreamer
  SDL videosink plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables the use of SDL supported drivers for video stream
+ output.
+ .
  http://www.libsdl.org/
 
 Package: gstreamer-sid
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: C64 SID decoder plugin for GStreamer
  C64 SID decoder plugin for GStreamer.
- Capable of playing music written for C64 SID chip (MOS 6581) and
- CPU (6510).
+ .
+ This plugin enables the decoding of music written for C64 SID chip
+ (MOS 6581) and CPU (6510).
  .
  http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/
  http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
@@ -281,20 +410,24 @@ Description: C64 SID decoder plugin for GStreamer
 Package: gstreamer-vorbis
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: Vorbis plugin for GStreamer
  Vorbis plugin for GStreamer
  .
+ This plugin enables the encoding and decoding of Ogg Vorbis audio streams.
+ .
  http://www.vorbis.com/
 
 Package: gstreamer-x
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= 0.4.0)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, gstreamer-runtime (>= @RTVERSION@)
 Description: X videosink plugin for GStreamer
  X videosink plugin for GStreamer
  .
- Has support for XVideo extension acceleration
+ This plugin enables the use of X to display video streams.  This plugin
+ will take advantage of XVideo acceleration if the X extension and hardware
+ are available.
  .
  http://www.x.org/
  http://www.xfree86.org/