I noticed a potentially serious problems with MusicBrainz support in Debian. MusicBrainz provides two interfaces: the old RDF interface and a new one based on XML. According to their wiki, RDF support will go away in the near future:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Web_Service http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=392 However, from what I can tell, most things in Debian use the old MusicBrainz library which only does RDF. We have two MusicBrainz libraries in Debian: Package: libmusicbrainz3 Binary: libmusicbrainz3-6, libmusicbrainz3-dev Package: libmusicbrainz-2.1 Binary: libmusicbrainz4-dev, libmusicbrainz4c2a, python-musicbrainz (not sure why the soname of 2.1 is higher of that of version 3) Version 2.1 provides the old RDF interface which will go away. Version 3 uses the new XML interface. These libraries have different APIs. Now as far as I can tell, most things in Debian link against libmusicbrainz4c2a, i.e. the old library. It seems we need a migration to version 3.0 (which may involve updates to the code of programs since the APIs are different). I don't know much about MusicBrainz but from what I found it's likely that MusicBrainz support will break during the lifetime of squeeze unless we plan a migration now. Any volunteers? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100518184853.ga4...@jirafa.cyrius.com
