Bug#506193: toolame: Encoded files are sometimes corrupted (bad 'padding' information)

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I'm not really interested in actively maintaining toolame. AFAIUI it is
>> obsolete and should be removed ASAP.
>
> Fine!
>
>> In general I think we really need to review the list of packages that
>> are supposed to be maintained und pkg-multimedia and do a rigorous
>> cleanup. I currently feel we have too much junk there.
>
> Junk? What packages are you thinking about?

After rereading the archives, I had the impression that we were talking
about some other package than toolame. I am wrong, sorry. Still, at
least I should (but probably we should all) go through the following
list and decide if and why we want to keep what library under the
pkg-multimedia hood:

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

>> are the two commandline compatible? If that, let's introduce an empty
>> transition package 'toolame' in 'twolame source package' depending on
>> 'twolame'.
>
> I'll find out and contact the twolame maintainer, maybe his package
> could even 'Provides: toolame' then. I'll also have to find out if there
> are any packages out there that depend on or recommend toolame.

We'd still need the transitional package for, well, the transition.

Thanks for handling that. Please CC our mailing list when filing the bug.

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