Bug#600747: audacity: Can't open download page for free lame MP3 codec

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:05:14AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>Am 20.10.2010 09:53, schrieb Romanoff Alexei:
>>You are right, installation of some untested software from the 
>>Internet isn't good. But users sometimes want to convert it's work to 
>>MP3 format... Maybe a little better idea will be redirection of end 
>>user to http://debian-multimedia.org/ or some little wiki page 
>>http://wiki.debian.org/ with problem solution?
>
>Yes, this sounds like a better idea. We should, however, be patient 
>until the ftp-masters have decided about the inclusion of lame in to 
>Debian. When this has happened (i.e. I expect a *positive* result 
>*after* the Squeeze release), backports will soon be available for 
>Squeeze. We should be patient and not point to locations outside 
>Debian until then.

Agreed - except nitpicking at the end: We should not point to locations 
outside Debian ever :-)


  - Jonas

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