Re: [Lame-dev] Packaging current lame CVS snapshot for Debian -- good or bad idea?

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Hi, Fabian and others.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fa...@gr...> wrote:
> We are currently packaging the latest stable release 3.99.5 and over
> time, we have added more and more patches to our package, most of them
> have already been applied in the lame CVS repository as well (thanks
> rbrito):

Thanks. I have been applying some patches that people have sent me,
but I still have quite a bit of work to do, as we have to triage
contributions from a lot of people and sourceforge's interface is not
entirely manipulable by e-mail or other convenient ways.

Anyway, as I have already talked privately with Fabian, I think that
the best person to answer about packaging a snapshot of LAME would be
Robert (in CC), since he has some patches fine-tuning the audio parts
of the project. Robert, is generating a package from the current
HEAD/master branch of CVS likely to have negative effects in
comparison with lame 3.99.5?

If so, what if we released a small bug fix of 3.99, say, 3.99.6? This
way, I think that we could address things that other people want and
we would save people from patching their local copies of lame.

> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/lame.git/tree/debian/patches
>
> Now that Debian "jessie" has been released, I'd like to prepare a new
> Debian package for lame based on a current CVS snapshot, so I can get
> rid of most of the patches we currently apply.

Now, this is a question to Fabian: can you remind me why you are
repackaging lame instead of using the tarball that we ship?

Also, I saw that debian/rules uses two switches:

* --enable-expopt=full: I am not really sure if this has been touched
in the last decade or not, but I recall a discussion from a few years
ago that we had developers using (for the sake of simplicity) one of
the ready made Makefile that are in the repository.
* --with-fileio=lame: any reason to not use sndfile? It allows feeding
a considerable greater amount of file types into lame (including
FLAC). I personally use a local copy of lame recompiled with sndfile
just for transcoding mp3 and flac files into files with lower bitrate
(yes, file size is still something that matters).

OK, I will stop here. I hope that Robert can give everybody a position
on what he considers the status of HEAD.


Regards,

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