On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:08:42AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I also that there are quite a few id3 related command-line tools and > libraries in Debian, it would be nice to unify all of those into one > library This makes the command line tool redundant, which is an argument for removal. Not a strong one, though -- to migrate to the competition, I'd have to change several lines in one of my private mp3 management scripts which is unnecessary work for me :p > In case you are thinking of dropping libid3, the following are the > reverse deps and reverse build-deps that would need to be ported or > dropped. You might want to talk to their maintainers and upstreams: [15 packages] But this is an argument to keep it. Porting 15 packages to something else would be quite a bit of work. However, what if you made not the command line tool but the library a thin wrapper over a competing one? That would require porting just once. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice.
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