On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:29, Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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: > > [15 packages] > But this is an argument to keep it. Porting 15 packages to something else > would be quite a bit of work.
True > However, what if you made not the command line tool but the library a thin > wrapper over a competing one? That would require porting just once. Someone also suggested this on IRC last night and I actually like the idea, thanks! cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ "You are not Grey Squirrel?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

