Bug#886369: easytag: remove mentioned OGG support from package description

James Cowgill jcowgill at debian.org
Thu Jan 4 23:32:39 UTC 2018


Package: easytag
Version: 2.4.3-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-CC: Bruno Kleinert <fuddl at debian.org>
Control: submitter -1 Bruno Kleinert <fuddl at debian.org>

Hi,

On 04/01/18 12:02, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2018, 16:50 +0000 schrieb James Cowgill:
>> Control: clone -1 -2
>> Control: notfound -2 2.4.3-1
>> Control: found -2 2.4.3-2
>> Control: severity -2 normal
>> Control: tags -2 - pending
>> Control: retitle -2 easytag: re-enable ogg after corruption bug is
>> fixed
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 16/02/17 01:02, Samuele Battarra wrote:
>>> Package: easytag
>>> Version: 2.4.3-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>> I have a ogg file encoded from a live cd, I split it to single
>>> tracks with oggsplt and then tag the tracks with easytag.
>>> When I play the files I hear a click at file change.
>>> The click is not present in files before the tagging and if I tag
>>> with kid3.
>>
>> As you might have noticed, I have decided that the best way to fix
>> this
>> is to disable support for OGG and related media types in easytag for
>> the
>> time being. Solving this bug is apparently quite complex and while
>> the
>> upstream bug has been open for over a year, there has not been much
>> progress on it. I think it is better to have some version in buster
>> (which does not mangle your media files) than nothing at all.
>>
>> I have cloned this bug to remind me to re-enable ogg support once the
>> corruption bug is fixed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I suggest to remove the mentioned OGG support from the description of
> the package for the time being, and suggest alternative packages to
> users instead. Feel free to use and adapt the attached patch!

Yes I overlooked altering the package description to remove mentions of
ogg. I'm not sure the description is the right place to be suggesting
alternative packages though.

James
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