On 10233 March 1977, Christian Marillat wrote: >> Yes, this is the reject of the rte package which was in NEW until now. >> Reasons: >> - It is an encoding thing, which encodes to formats which are patented, and >> the patent holder are actually enforcing their patents. Found some >> hits for this with a little question to google. > Are you serious ? We have ffmpeg (and soon mencoder in the mplayer > package)in Debian who does exactly what rte does and rte can't enter > Debian ? ffmpeg should be removed then.
Yes, ffmpeg encoding stuff shouldnt be there, and no, mplayer wont get in with mencoder included. I already talked with upstream about it, he will talk with Debian maintainer to exclude this thing, before we take a closer look at it. >> - Its fairly outdated now (yeah, long time in NEW, but this doesnt mean that >> new package versions shouldnt be uploaded into NEW too, if even just >> to show that you actually still care for your package!) > Of course read the ITP bug. I already answered in this bug 3 months ago, > that I'm still interested to package rte. An upload of a newer package would have shown interest... >> - Its not even available on the homepage of you, the packager, where >> all other packages are that arent in Debian, so it doesnt look like >> this package is needed for anything in or around Debian right now. > Of course yes. Read the ITP : > ,---- > | librte0 and librte-dev library needed by zapping to build the plugin > | encoder. > `---- > I'm the zapping maintainer. >> If this reasons are no longer true in the future feel free to >> re-upload it, but for now it is out. > Done. I've uploaded 0.5.6-1 As written above: ENCODING is still an issue and therefore at least one reason is still true. So dont hope too much it will get through. -- bye Joerg Die dümmsten Hähne haben die dicksten Eier.
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