On Jul 27, 2011 1:48 PM, "Rogério Brito" <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote: > > Dear people, > > I'm in the middle of a power outage right now, using the last few > drops of energy of notebook battery and a 3G connection, so I will be > brief. (Oh, please keep in the CC'ies to me). > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 14:41, Andres Mejia <mcita...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2011 12:49 PM, "robert" <robert.hegem...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Rogério. > >> > >> Am 26.07.2011, 16:24 Uhr, schrieb Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br>: > >> > >> > >>>> We're just waiting for a new release of lame with all the license > >>>> clarification changes before uploading lame to Debian. :-) > >>> > >>> > >>> I don't think that we will be able to release anything in time for > > DebConf, > >>> as LAME is just beginning to get into the beta stage. > >> > >> > >> What time frame are we talking about? > >> > >> From my point of view, there may be some small patches to apply > >> and then release 3.99: > >> > >> 1 - pending LGPL patch > >> 2 - eventually changing default behaviour for ID3v2 unicode tags. > >> > >> What do the others think? > > Robert, it seems that Andres just adopted the suggestion that I gave > him of backporting some changes. Regarding a new release, I think that > we may need to include one extra thing in our TODO list. See below. > > > I was simply going to backport the lgpl patches and upload the last release. > > I suppose there's no need to wait for a new release now. > > Andres, I just saw that LAME was rejected by the FTP masters: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-July/020498.html > > That part is only used if we use lame's internal IO routines. Just rip > that apart and link with libsndfile and we're done. Please reupload > that... > > I am motivated enough to get LAME into Debian that I am *seriously* > planning to rewrite that portion of the code for the next stable > release, implementing just the bare minimum that is needed for LAME to > work (and, of course, not reproducing Erik Castro's work with > sndfile). > > Most of the functions in portableio.[ch] are quite trivial, anyway... > You can tell that I *badly* want LAME in Debian, can't you? > (Especially now that it seems that the FTP masters are convinced that > such software is Free Software). > > Oh, hint, hint for the multimedia maintainers: what about uploading my > already packaged mp3packer from my launchpad PPA? [0] > > [0]: https://launchpad.net/~rbrito/+archive/ppa/+files/mp3packer_1.20-1~ubuntu1.dsc > > OK, the battery of my laptop is running out... :-( > > > Regards, > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA > http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
I was going to replace that code myself actually. I had the idea of using only portableio.h with inline functions and removing portableio.c. Also, i've had a problem before with using sndfile with lame and k3b. Not sure if that's been resolved by now.
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