On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have > the same responsibilities as upstream. > > Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing > list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give you admin > access to the sourceforge project and you could work on the code there > and produce new releases. At the same time you could invite the > maintainers of id3v2/libid3 in other distros (run whohas to find them) > to join upstream and merge their patches so that you won't be alone. > > I can't really see a "right" answer here, everything requires a lot of > work or is a suboptimal solution. > > I also that there are quite a few id3 related command-line tools and > libraries in Debian, it would be nice to unify all of those into one > library: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=id3 > > You might want to mail the maintainers and upstreams of all the > relevant ones, some might be willing to join libid3 upstream. > > In case you are thinking of dropping libid3, the following are the > reverse deps and reverse build-deps that would need to be ported or > dropped. You might want to talk to their maintainers and upstreams: > > # Broken Depends: > clam: libclam1.4 [alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390] > djplay: djplay [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 > kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc] > easytag: easytag > gmediaserver: gmediaserver > id3v2: id3v2 > intone: intone [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 > kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc] > kid3: kid3 > kid3-qt > liblicense: liblicense3 > ripperx: ripperx > splay: splay [alpha armel hurd-i386 i386 powerpc] > tagtool: tagtool > > # Broken Build-Depends: > clam: libid3-3.8.3-dev > djplay: libid3-3.8.3-dev > easytag: libid3-3.8.3-dev > flac: libid3-3.8.3-dev > gmediaserver: libid3-3.8.3-dev > id3v2: libid3-3.8.3-dev > intone: libid3-3.8.3-dev > iripdb: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-5) > kid3: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2) > kwave: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2) > liblicense: libid3-3.8.3-dev > ripperx: libid3-dev > splay: libid3-3.8.3-dev > tagtool: libid3-3.8.3-dev > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
I believe taglib is worth a mention here too. See [1]. Aside from id3 tags, taglib supports many other tag formats. Also, taglib upstream seems much more active. 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/taglib.html -- Regards, Andres Mejia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
