[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Rogério Brito]

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 <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2011 12:49 PM, "robert" <Robert.Hegemann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rogério.
>>
>> Am 26.07.2011, 16:24 Uhr, schrieb Rogério Brito <rbrito at 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,

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