[Mageia-dev] Faac and building upon faac

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
+>
+> 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 !
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+> 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 ?
+>
+> Philippe
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