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



On 10233 March 1977, Christian Marillat wrote:

>> 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.

Yes, ffmpeg encoding stuff shouldnt be there, and no, mplayer wont get
in with mencoder included. I already talked with upstream about it, he
will talk with Debian maintainer to exclude this thing, before we take a
closer look at it.

>> - Its fairly outdated now (yeah, long time in NEW, but this doesnt mean that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.

An upload of a newer package would have shown interest...

>> - 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

As written above: ENCODING is still an issue and therefore at least one
reason is still true. So dont hope too much it will get through.

-- 
bye Joerg
Die dümmsten Hähne haben die dicksten Eier.

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