On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:43:31PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Diego Biurrun schrieb: > >FFmpeg contains a fixed-point MP3 decoder that is much faster than > >libmad and already available to MPlayer without adding an unnecessary > >libmad dependency. > > Anyway, we should offer the choice to use libmad and therefore I added > libmad0-dev to the Build-Depends.
Sorry, but this is nonsense. There is an insane amount of dependencies that you can add for no practical gain. > >That's why you falsely believe that you should be using libmad when > >ffmp3 is much better. For the freerunner you should simply prefer > >ffmp3 over mp3lib. > > Sorry, but I don't think so. Until now the mplayer package in neither > Debian nor Ubuntu has been built against libmad. It was built against libmad in the past until I convinced Reinhard Tartler to drop the useless dependency. Now you have put it back. Way to go... Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org