On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 08:26:26PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > Sorry for wasting everyone's time on the update, > > but while rewriting the manpage and preparing the update, > > I became convinced there's no point in having it: > > vorbiscomment(1) of vorbis-tools does everything that oggtag(1) does > > (and you do have vorbis-tools installed if you want to handle ogg files) > > and most importantly, oggtag is the opposite of least surprise: > > > > $ oggtag file.ogg > > > > What does that do? It removes all the ogg tags. That's right: > > > > BUGS > > oggtag deletes all tags that are not specified. > > > > The default is not to list the present tags (as for e.g vorbiscomment), > > but to rewrite the present tags with the given set (possibly empty); > > it has no mode for listing or editing or appending, it only rewrites. > > So now I don't know who recorded 01.sgt-pepper.ogg on which album. > > I wondered if oggtag could be used on any .ogg file, not just vorbis, > but it doesn't seem to be the case. Well, neither vorbiscomment nor > oggtag seem to recognize flac-in-ogg. So I tend to agree with your > conclusion.
The removal also makes sense to me. Besides, it seems we are the only ones (still?) shipping it. OK fcambus@ to remove.
