Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have
> the same responsibilities as upstream.
>
> Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing
> list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give you admin
> access to the sourceforge project and you could work on the code there
> and produce new releases. At the same time you could invite the
> maintainers of id3v2/libid3 in other distros (run whohas to find them)
> to join upstream and merge their patches so that you won't be alone.
>
> I can't really see a "right" answer here, everything requires a lot of
> work or is a suboptimal solution.
>
> 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:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=id3
>
> You might want to mail the maintainers and upstreams of all the
> relevant ones, some might be willing to join libid3 upstream.
>
> 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:
>
> # Broken Depends:
> clam: libclam1.4 [alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390]
> djplay: djplay [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
> kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc]
> easytag: easytag
> gmediaserver: gmediaserver
> id3v2: id3v2
> intone: intone [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
> kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc]
> kid3: kid3
> kid3-qt
> liblicense: liblicense3
> ripperx: ripperx
> splay: splay [alpha armel hurd-i386 i386 powerpc]
> tagtool: tagtool
>
> # Broken Build-Depends:
> clam: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> djplay: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> easytag: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> flac: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> gmediaserver: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> id3v2: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> intone: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> iripdb: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-5)
> kid3: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2)
> kwave: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2)
> liblicense: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> ripperx: libid3-dev
> splay: libid3-3.8.3-dev
> tagtool: libid3-3.8.3-dev
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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>
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I believe taglib is worth a mention here too. See [1]. Aside from id3
tags, taglib supports many other tag formats. Also, taglib upstream
seems much more active.
1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/taglib.html
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Regards,
Andres Mejia
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