[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Tue Oct 2 10:03:46 CEST 2012

Hello list.
+
+The case of faac package has been discussed several times already:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730
+http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-dev@mageia.org/msg08059.html
+https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016673.html
+
+So far, the conclusion was than we had no perfect solution to handle the 
+case of a software being having both licensing and patents issue, 
+whereas usually software only suffer from one of these problems only, 
+and than creating a dedicated 4th repository was unreasonable. Hence the 
+removal of the package from the mirrors (but not from our svn...).
+
+Given the importance of this package for several multimedia-related 
+software (it is a mandatory dependency for cinerella, for instance), I 
+think it's time to revisit this decision, and rather look for a 
+pragmatic solution rather than a merely bureaucratic one. So far, I 
+didn't see anything in the line of "we don't want to distribute it", 
+rather "we don't know how to do it"...
+
+For me, the simplest solution is just to decide between non-free and 
+tainted repository where this piece of code fits better (or sucks less), 
+eventually document the exception somewhere on the wiki, and stop 
+getting blocked eternally by our own rules...
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #132:
+
+SCSI Chain overterminated
+