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Bug#482509: idjc: FTBFS: Nonexistent build-dependency: liblame-dev



Hi Peter,

IMO it is a very bad idea to have a package build against a legally dubious library just because the system it was built on happened to have it installed.

lame itself is not legally dubious, it's just unfortunate in being liable to software patent enforcement on MP3 encoding. That's reason enough not to include lame in Debian, of course.

It should be possible to build idjc without lame, thereby making it suitable for encoding Ogg Vorbis streams only. It would still be a useful application in that context.

Cheers!

Daniel



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