Bug#900116: faac: please, upload the new version from salsa to unstable

[Rogério Brito]

Dear Fabian!

On May 26 2018, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Hi Rogerio,
> 
> nice to hear from you!

Great hearing from you too!

> Am Samstag, den 26.05.2018, 06:47 -0300 schrieb Rogério Brito:
> > It would be sweet to have 1.29.9 and even better to have 1.29.9.2 to
> > have the improvements reported there (Intensity Stereo, PNS) and
> > evaluation against other encoders.
> 
> the reason why I hesitated to upload 1.29.9.x to Debian is that it is
> still not clear to me if DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) will still work
> with that version.

Oh, I see. It may (or may not) be broken, according to the little that I
skimmed from the logs and discussions.

> Wil it help if I upload the new version to experimental first?

Sure, that will be great for the purposes of comparisons.

> > BTW, I saw on their git mirror repo[1] that some files with (to me)
> > unfamiliar licenses were substituted with LGPLv3+ (e.g., Huffman
> > encoding) and some unused files were removed, which is, possibly, one step
> > closer to being free'er.
> 
> That'd be great news!

Not only that, but it seems to be much faster than before. Let's see. :-)


Thanks,

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