On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:23, Andres Mejia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Very nice, thanks, I'll have a closer look at taglib. I like the idea of having active upstream development! :) 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]
