[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

Sun Sep 16 22:12:11 CEST 2012

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
+
+> Regards,
+>
+>         Shlomi Fish
+>
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