Rejected: Bug#295006: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder
This proposal would change the virtual package name mp3-encoder to
music-encoder or audio-encoder, allowing ripping tools to depend on
music-encoder rather than the various available tools.
As mentioned in the bug, the problem is that the interface for an
audio-encoder virtual package is undefined. Those encoder programs all
provide different interfaces and different outputs, meaning that an
encoding tool cannot usefully just depend on audio-encoder and call a
standard interface that would be provided by any package providing
audio-encoder. They still need specific logic to support particular
programs, and hence dependencies or recommendations for those specific
programs.
I am therefore rejecting this proposal. (It may separately be a good idea
to clean up other virtual packages that have similar problems, but that's
outside the scope of this particular bug.)
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons that
weren't raised in the prior bug discussion, please raise them in this bug.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons already
raised in the bug, the path of appeal for a Policy proposal rejection is
to the tech-ctte. See http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte for how to
make an appeal to the tech-ctte.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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