Package: easytag
Version: 2.4.3-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-CC: Bruno Kleinert <fu...@debian.org>
Control: submitter -1 Bruno Kleinert <fu...@debian.org>

Hi,

On 04/01/18 12:02, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2018, 16:50 +0000 schrieb James Cowgill:
>> Control: clone -1 -2
>> Control: notfound -2 2.4.3-1
>> Control: found -2 2.4.3-2
>> Control: severity -2 normal
>> Control: tags -2 - pending
>> Control: retitle -2 easytag: re-enable ogg after corruption bug is
>> fixed
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 16/02/17 01:02, Samuele Battarra wrote:
>>> Package: easytag
>>> Version: 2.4.3-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>> I have a ogg file encoded from a live cd, I split it to single
>>> tracks with oggsplt and then tag the tracks with easytag.
>>> When I play the files I hear a click at file change.
>>> The click is not present in files before the tagging and if I tag
>>> with kid3.
>>
>> As you might have noticed, I have decided that the best way to fix
>> this
>> is to disable support for OGG and related media types in easytag for
>> the
>> time being. Solving this bug is apparently quite complex and while
>> the
>> upstream bug has been open for over a year, there has not been much
>> progress on it. I think it is better to have some version in buster
>> (which does not mangle your media files) than nothing at all.
>>
>> I have cloned this bug to remind me to re-enable ogg support once the
>> corruption bug is fixed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I suggest to remove the mentioned OGG support from the description of
> the package for the time being, and suggest alternative packages to
> users instead. Feel free to use and adapt the attached patch!

Yes I overlooked altering the package description to remove mentions of
ogg. I'm not sure the description is the right place to be suggesting
alternative packages though.

James
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a8df5e1..4cae9d8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+easytag (2.4.3-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Do not mention OGG support in package description. Instead, suggest
+    alternative packages to edit OGG file tags.
+
+ -- Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <fu...@debian.org>  Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:52:46 +0100
+
 easytag (2.4.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/control:
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6e53796..36cabb6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -49,9 +49,8 @@ Description: GTK+ editor for audio file tags
  .
  Currently EasyTAG supports the following:
   - View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis
-    tag), Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex and Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag),
-    MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey's Audio files
-    (APE tag);
+    tag), MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey's Audio
+    files (APE tag);
   - Auto tagging: parse file and directory names using masks to automatically
     fill in tag fields;
   - Cover art support for all formats;
@@ -71,6 +70,10 @@ Description: GTK+ editor for audio file tags
   - A playlist generator window;
   - A file searching window;
   - Simple and explicit interface.
+ .
+ OGG support is currently disabled in this package because of a data corruption
+ bug. To edit tags in OGG files you may consider one of these packages: exfalso,
+ puddletag, kid3-qt, entagged.
 
 Package: easytag-nautilus
 Architecture: any

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