Bug#506193: toolame: Encoded files are sometimes corrupted (bad 'padding' information)

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

>> Yes, maybe. Toolame upstream is dead for >5 years now, it is buggy and 
>> a viable alternative exists. I'll request removal of toolame 
>> post-Lenny if nobody of the pkg-multimedia team raises a plea.
>
> What's the team's opinion:
>
> Should we request removal of toolame before or after Lenny?

I'm not really interested in actively maintaining toolame. AFAIUI it is
obsolete and should be removed ASAP.

In general I think we really need to review the list of packages that
are supposed to be maintained und pkg-multimedia and do a rigorous
cleanup. I currently feel we have too much junk there.

> If we remove it after Lenny, should the fixed packages that are 
> currently in our SVN be uploaded directly to proposed-updates? Now or 
> after the release?
>
> How do we tell people to use twolame instead? Release notes?

are the two commandline compatible? If that, let's introduce an empty
transition package 'toolame' in 'twolame source package' depending on
'twolame'.

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