Robert Millan wrote: > * Package name : oggasm > Upstream : Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu> > * URL : http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL > Description : MP3 to Ogg converter > > I'm not the ITPer, Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu> packaged > orgasm but haven't moved to include it in debian. I'm contacting him. Funny you should bring this up today; we've just been debating an ITP of another mp3->vorbis converter, with several of us arguing that such programs are 1) a bad idea because converting mp3 to vorbis creates bad-quality vorbis files full of mp3 artifacts; and 2) unnecessary, because the conversion is trivial. When this question comes up on the vorbis mailing list, the vorbis developers and the more knowledgeable users all say "don't transcode from other lossy codecs to vorbis". Furthermore, with the recent announcement of patent royalties from Frauenhofer, it seems that Debian may need to remove all packages that are covered by the mp3 patents, at which point an mp3-to-vorbis converter would either be removed, or would be dependent on software that is no longer part of Debian. So my comment on this ITP is the same as for mp32ogg: let's not have it in Debian. Craig
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