Fwd: Mame 0.145 and the sorry state of included libraries !

[Cesare Falco]

Sorry, I forgot to cc the list.

Cesare.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cesare Falco <cesare.falco at gmail.com>
Date: 2012/2/24
Subject: Re: Mame 0.145 and the sorry state of included libraries !
To: Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>


Hello!

Just to let you know I've not moved to Planet Mars yet... :)

After securing next Ubuntu release (which will be LTS) will have no
backward issues with Mame, I'll now focus on merging package from
Debian before Ubuntu 12.11 is out.

>> Mame 0.145 and among other things ship two new libraries to provide jpeg
>> decoding and flac export.
Mame 0.145u1 introduces a custom 7zip library too. :(

> Yeah, we really want to avoid using the included jpeg and flac libs, we
> *really* need to use the system libs, or none at all.
ditto.

Cheers,
Cesare.