[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Tue Sep 20 12:02:37 CEST 2011


Am 20.09.2011 11:32, schrieb Philippe DIDIER:
> Hi !
> Since sunday september 18th faac is provided in tainted repos for mageia1 and 
> cauldron.... after some controversy
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> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730
>
> Mplayer (for the mencoder part)
> Libquicktime
> VLC
> Gstreamer-plugins-bad
> Mythtv
> had been imported and built in core... and in tainted repo with some specific 
> building potentially infringing patents
>
> but BR faac option was not validated for them because faac was not present in 
> the repo !
>
> Now the situation has changed :
> Handbrake bundles faac and could be built with this BR
As HandBrake bundles faac, it does not need to be built with BR faac.
>
> Now that faac is present  mythtv has been built with BR faac
>
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> 4 packages may now be built with BR faac (the same as they are in plf for 
> Mandriva 2010.2 or 2011):
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> mplayer : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2771
> gstreamer-plugins-bad : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2772
> libquicktime : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2773
> vlc : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2774
>
> These four packages have just been rebuilt with new libpng by Funda
>
> I wrote a mp to Funda asking if he may rebuild them with BR faac now that 
> it's provided ...
> He thinks this should be discussed here
>
> Annsi Hannula seems to think so too :
> he said in bug 1730
> "Other things (including if using it in mythtv is ok) probably need to be 
> decided on a case-by-case basis."
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>
> in addendum
> one other package should be imported now (bug 1730 was blocking until now)
> audiokonverter :              https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985
>
> What do you think ?
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> Philippe
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