* Uwe Hermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > You ITP'd libmpeg3 quite a while ago. I have read the discussions on > debian-devel about it containing DeCSS etc... > > What is the current status of the package? Is it possible to include it > in Debian at all? Can it go into main? If yes, how will the package be > called? Do you still intend to package libmpeg3?
I have packaged it, and it is included in Christian Marillat's unofficial apt repository [0]. It seems Christian has taken over the actual maintenance of it. These are the outstanding issues that could prevent it from being included in Debian: 1. It contains CSS code. However, I think I've resolved this by simply removing the CSS code for the Debian package. It requires uploading a modified "upstream" tarball. However, with the CSS code removed, I don't see why it couldn't go into main. 2. The upstream source doesn't build a shared library. Even though it's possible to modify it so that it does (which I have done), there is no official upstream soname, so any dynamic linking will be incompatible with future versions of the library that are shared. 3. The documentation for the library says that it requires kernel >= 2.4.4. I'm fairly convinced that it doesn't (I've successfully used it with less), but I'm wary of completely disregarding its warning. Joshua [0] http://marillat.free.fr/ -- Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
