Maintenance of celt

[Ron]

Hi Steve,

No, it's not 'dead' at all.  What it is though is a bleeding edge new
codec that upstream hasn't even frozen the bitstream format for yet.
So if anyone is planning to depend on it right now, they probably will
need to:

 - Figure out how _they_ plan to deal with that.  And how they plan
   to tell their users that any files they create with it today may
   not be readable tomorrow.
 - Discuss with myself (and upstream) how _we_ are going to manage
   that in a distro package context.  You can't rely on the usual
   'well behaved stable library' rules here, it's still too new.

Since no one actually responsible for any potential dependency has either
got in touch with me, or responded to my queries on behalf of others,
there hasn't really seemed to be any urgency in churning this package.

If opal wants to use this now, the maintainers of it are certainly
welcome to open such a dialogue.  There is no point rushing upstream
into making compatibility guarantees before there are any 'end' users,
so I've just been patient so far -- and how 'adversely' opal may be
affected by this is really, entirely up to its maintainers.

I can update this any day.  But if you want that to not trash things
on you, and me to care about that, then I'm going to have to know
who you are, and what things we agree upon ...

With Love and Affection (:
Ron


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:47:50AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I have recently merged opal in Ubuntu from Debian, and as such, have
> looked at filed an main inclusion request to have the celt library moved
> from universe to main -- as far as I can see, celt maintenance in Debian
> looks to be fairly dead -- are you guys looking at also giving that
> package love and affection so that it doesn't adversely impact on opal?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
>                                         Steve
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> a blindfold.
>          - Erik de Castro Lopo
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