Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:31:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > In that case, one would simply depend on that, and the shell wrapper > would depend on an |-ed list of the encoders it understood. I still > don't see that the virtual package could be useful. Well, I dont see why mp3-encoder is us

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:01:15 +0100 "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly > > support the

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly > support the differing argument conventions. In which case, why not just > depend on the en

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:57:04PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:04:36AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Wouldn't it be necessary for this to work for all music encoders to have > > the same command line interface? I haven't used MP3 encoders for many > > years, but in t

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:04:36AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Wouldn't it be necessary for this to work for all music encoders to have > the same command line interface? I haven't used MP3 encoders for many > years, but in their simple forms, I vaguely recall them to have been at > least som

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-02-13 kello 01:22 +0200, Jesus Climent kirjoitti: > Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i > believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package > than "mp3-encoder". Wouldn't it be necessary for this to work for all music encode

Re: Bug#295006: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:22:20AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.6.1.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i > believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package > than "mp3-e

debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-12 Thread Jesus Climent
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package than "mp3-encoder". Tools that have a Depends: entry on mp3-encoder are: ecasound Too