[Pkg-opt-media-team] Are patches welcome?

[Carsten Gnoerlich]

Hi Rogério and Takaki,

> (As an aside, I am particularly interested in Coding Theory, but still 
> have quite a lot to learn).
Cool :-) Since the next dvdisaster version will feature a new 
Reed-Solomon codec,
you might have a look at its (early state) specification:
http://dvdisaster.net/en/download50.html
The plan is to release the codec early and with extensive documentation 
so that we all can test and understand it thoroughly. Any input is welcome.

> Just for the record, Takaki has set up a repository (which seems to have 
> been initiated by Daniel) and we are using that for our code. You can 
> browse it at http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-opt-media/dvdisaster.git if 
> you wish.
Yup; I already got the patches from there.

>> 01-docdir: 
I understand from your other mails that this one will probably resolved.

> No problems. I didn't know that the legality of them was under suspicion 
> in other countries. Do you recommend that we consult debian-legal to see 
> if we can continue to distribute the software?
Well, I'd rather not give any legal advice or interfere with the way
the Debian port is run.

> (Gee, this is a quite unfortunate fact, as they are just some if's on 
> the code and nothing else...) :-(
Yes, and at least patch 03 is suspicious to me. It simply removes the
error message telling the user that CSS encoded media can not processed.
Since dvdisaster has no CSS decoding capabilities and the patch does not
add any, things will just break a bit later (and less gracefully) when 
the CSS encoded region is encountered. But frankly I don't know what the
rationale for adding this patch was.

> Do you adopt any conventions of using even/odd middle versions as 
> stable/development versions?
Indeed: Even middle versions (0.72.x) are stable versions;
odd versions (0.73.x) are experimental. Then soon to be opened
0.73 branch will definitely be a very experimental one as we are
venturing into heavy duty multicore usage and using Intel intrinsics
for encoding.

> Mit freundlich Grüße, :-)
:-)

Cheers,
   Carsten

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