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Since celt is an optional dependency for libventrilo, a quick way to fix this would be to pass --disable-celt to ./configure. However, first I intend to contact upstream to see what plans they have about using opus instead of celt. Vincent ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron <r...@debian.org> Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:23 PM Subject: Migrating your packages from celt to opus To: Sebastian Dröge <sl...@debian.org>, Adrian Knoth <a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1...@gmail.com>, Mark Purcell <m...@debian.org>, pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, pkg-gstreamer-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, pkg-voip-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, If you've received this, it's because you are listed as maintaining a package that currently depends on celt (my apologies to those who may have got two copies of it by being behind a maintainer group alias also). As you hopefully all already know, the experimental celt codec has evolved into Opus, a standard endorsed by the IETF codec working group. We now have packages of Opus available in Sid, which I'd like to encourage you all to move to now, as quickly as we possibly can. I know this is very short notice in the lead up to the freeze, and I'd have loved to have this for you sooner too, but the timing of being able to ship this has been somewhat out of our control. I'd really like us to be able to remove the current celt packages from Wheezy. We had tried to get all of the distros to agree to shipping the 0.7.1 version, so that there would be some semblance of interoperability between them, but unfortunately, that never actually eventuated. Celt is no longer maintained upstream, and apps using it are basically only interoperable with themselves, and for the most part, then only with the same version of themselves on the same distro. Opus is now bitstream and API frozen, so the celt experiment is officially now over. We (meaning myself and upstream) would really like to avoid having an old version of it still shipping in the distro for several years to come, and having apps which could and should now be using the interoperable Opus standard, still using it instead. Nothing will be able to decode these old celt streams, and nobody will be supporting the library should bugs be found in it. So in the best interests of yourselves, your users, (and us!), I ask you to please look into moving from celt to opus at the soonest opportunity. The upstream maintainers of many projects should already be in the loop with this happening, so for those who planned ahead, this should be minimal work to do now. Should it not be possible to migrate to opus in this time frame, you should probably consider disabling celt support anyway - I haven't quite decided what the best thing to do will be if not all apps can move, but since they won't be able to interoperate with anything else anyway, removing celt still seems like the right thing for us to do at this point. So if you have some counterpoint to that, please do let me know! Anyhow, I can't possibly apologise enough for the short notice, we all wish we'd had this available sooner, and it wasn't even certain that we'd have it available now - so it's been hard to make promises with timelines attached for people. Now that we have it though, I'd really like to see as many apps and libs as possible not miss the boat for adopting it for the next release. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
