[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> Hi Jehan,
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:07:04 +0900
> Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for becoming a Mageia packager, hence for a mentor, per
>> Mageia rules.
>
> if no one else volunteers, then I guess I can become your mentor as well.
> I am "rindolf" on IRC on #mageia-mentoring and other #mageia channels.

Thanks Shlomi (or should I use Rindolf?).
I guess I'll email you directly from now on, if I have questions then?

> Just a note:
>
>> - FAAC: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html
>> MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder
>>
>
> From what I recall, FAAC has fell into something that is both "tainted"
> and non-free, which does not have a suitable repository, and so we decided
> against packaging it.

I installed it because it was necessary for cinelerra (It is marked as
mandatory component in the configure).
But indeed the text on the main page is kind of not very appealing.
Chosen extracts:

"No binary distributions are available here, because they require a
patent license."

"FAAC is based on the original ISO MPEG reference code. The changes to
this code are licensed under the LGPL license. The original license is
not compatible with the LGPL, please be aware of this when using FAAC.
"

I'll check later on the cinelerra mailing list if they ever plan to
change this dependency or if they is a way to install cinelerra
without faad. If not, I guess Mageia will never have it. That explains
why it seems that cinelerra is in PLF for Mandriva.
Thanks.

Jehan

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>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
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