On Thursday 26 July 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Manon Metten wrote: > > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does > > > > that create a conflict with Debian's social contract? > > The mp3 encoder is patented outside of the context of the software > license for that particular program. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues > > > > Before you can install lame, you have to add this line to your > > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > Is this fairly new? I had never had a problem before, but I may > > not have been trying to do anything with multimedia on Sarge > > before. > > This has been true thoughout the history of Sarge. And Sarge > released June 2005. It has subsequently been replaced with Etch > released April 2007. You really should consider upgrading to Etch at > least before Lenny releases. :-)
I will be upgrading to Etch, but I've been so busy with the aftermath of a death in the family a few months before Etch went stable and a heavy programming load for the past 2 months, that I haven't even had time to check up on what kind of "gotchas" I need to be aware of. I know there's an issue with MySQL and permissions with an easy work around, but other than that, I want to have time to check out known issues before I upgrade a server. On the other hand, what's the expected release date for Lenny going Stable? With Etch going Stable in April, I figure I still have another 8 - 9 months before Lenny is stable. :-) > That depot has been moved around to various places over the last > few years. It seems to be at a permanent home now at > www.debian-multimedia.org. They're saying for Sarge to use one of their mirrors. I guess I can change that when I upgrade to Etch. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
