[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Andres Mejia]

On Jul 28, 2011 12:43 PM, "Rogério Brito" <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
>
> Hi, Andres
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:26, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 28, 2011 3:15 AM, "Rogério Brito" <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
> >> Can you please send "git format-patch/git send-email" patches against
my
> >> github tree (branch origin), with one topic per patch?
> >>
> >> Your patches came foo-bared and they are changing at least two things
(the
> >> GTK stuff and the debian subdir).
>
> Just for the record, I don't know if I gave the one above proper
> emphasis, but this way, I can give you proper attribution also (I hope
> that this is possible with CVS).
>
> >> Please see the attached patch to kill portableio.c if you are using
> >> libsndfile (which we should be in debian, anyway).
>
> Just for the record, did you receive the attachment that I sent? I'm
> asking because I didn't. I have to fix some of my e-mail filtering of
> attachments here...

Yes, I got the attachment.

> > Please note my earlier email about sndfile. Enabling sndfile for lame
breaks
> > k3b and any app using kio slaves.
>
> Oh, darn... Does that mean that Debian's lame will not be compiled
> with sndfile?

Yes, lame is compiled using it's internal io functions.

One question, though: what does k3b and the kio slaves
> use lame for? For decoding MP3s? Shouldn't they be using a specialized
> software for decoding files?

K3b is a cd authoring app that also rips cds to mp3. Lame is used for mp3
encoding.

> > If you look around, the only fix is to use lame's internal io functions
when
> > this breakage happens.
>
> Well, the functions in the "portableio" (they aren't portable) are all
> easy enough to be written... All they effectively do is write a given
> short/int/long in little or big endian form to a C's FILE... I can
> come up with another patch that reimplement that, but that's so silly
> to have to rewrite... :-(

I have a patch already submitted via the bug tracker. This was simple enough
to write, debug, and verify it works correctly.

> Regards,
>
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