Am 15.04.2012 00:24, schrieb Bill Allombert:
It would certainly be useful to know why it was added in the first place.
The relevant bug reports are #64004, #64006 and #295006.
I've read through them.
I don't see the point of #64004. It sounds like the OP wanted to
suggest adding it as some kind of preparation should lame ever get
included in Debian. Well, now it is and it does *not* provide this
virtual package. Packages supporting /u/b/lame (i.e. the CLI) should
declare a Depends on lame instead - it's that simple.
#64006 and #295006 tell a similar story, but I believe the latter one
is more significant. I wholeheartly agree with the reasons you give
for the reject, being that a virtual package "audio-encoder" does not
add value as long as all the candidates provide different interfaces.
If you support /u/b/flac to encode audio to FLAC, declare a Depends on
the flac package; if you support /u/b/oggenc to encode to OGG/Vorbis,
declare a Depends on the vorbis-tools package.
As long as it is not possible to run "audio-encoder some_audio.wav" on
Debian to convert some_audio.wav into the next best audio format, this
virtual package makes no sense. This is especially true for
"mp3-encoder" and the exact reason why it should get removed IMHO.
- Fabian
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