Bug#112699: rte_0.4-0.0_i386.changes REJECTED

[Christian Marillat <marillat@free.fr>]

Joerg Jaspert <ftpmaster@debian.org> writes:

> Hi

Hi,

> Yes, this is the reject of the rte package which was in NEW until now.
>
> Reasons:
> - It is an encoding thing, which encodes to formats which are patented, and
>   the patent holder are actually enforcing their patents. Found some
>   hits for this  with a little question to google.

Are you serious ? We have ffmpeg (and soon mencoder in the mplayer
package)in Debian who does exactly what rte does and rte can't enter
Debian ? ffmpeg should be removed then.

> - Its fairly outdated now (yeah, long time in NEW, but this doesnt mean that
>   new package versions shouldnt be uploaded into NEW too, if even just
>   to show that you actually still care for your package!) 

Of course read the ITP bug. I already answered in this bug 3 months ago,
that I'm still interested to package rte.

> - Its not even available on the homepage of you, the packager, where
>   all other packages are that arent in Debian, so it doesnt look like
>   this package is needed for anything in or around Debian right now.

Of course yes. Read the ITP :

,----
| librte0 and librte-dev library needed by zapping to build the plugin
| encoder.
`----

I'm the zapping maintainer.

> If this reasons are no longer true in the future feel free to
>  re-upload it, but for now it is out.

Done. I've uploaded 0.5.6-1

Christian