retitle 185650 ITP: ices2 -- Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 thanks
Hello BTS, WNPP: ices upstream is currently maintaining two branches of development: ices0, which streams MP3 to either Icecast 1, 2, or Shoutcast; and ices2, which streams Ogg Vorbis to Icecast 2. At some point, MP3 support might be added to ices2, but no concrete plans have been announced to this end, and for the time being it makes sense to include both in Debian. This may still be the case come sarge release time. The current Debian maintainer for icecast-server has previously expressed interest in creating ices0 packages, so I'm renaming my ices2 packages to avoid any potential namespace conflicts. There shouldn't be any versioning issues, since no ices packages have yet entered the main archive. (Actually, I hope if anyone does create ices0 packages, they will use the source and binary package names 'ices0' - this is how upstream refers to this strangely-numbered software, since it's the only way to avoid redundancy.) Updated sid packages are available from my apt source: deb http://rune.thebasement.org/~ice/debian keegan main deb-src http://rune.thebasement.org/~ice/debian keegan main The first Debian revision of these packages Conflict and Replace the last revision of my packages named 'ices' - these control fields will be removed in the next revision, to avoid cruft and prevent potential conflicts with any future ices packages. I recommend that anyone who used the old 'ices' packages upgrade immediately. Sponsorship requests would be gladly welcomed, although the transition outlined in the last paragraph should be completed before an upload, and I'll need a changelog entry that Closes: this ITP bug. Here is the full, updated ITP information, for completeness - comments on this final long description are welcome: Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-14 Severity: wishlist * Package name : ices2 Version : 2.0.cvs${date} Upstream Author : The Icecast Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.icecast.org/ * License : GPL Description : Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 This software is used to source Icecast 2 streaming audio servers with Ogg Vorbis audio streams. It supports both live audio input from a soundcard and re-encoding of Ogg Vorbis files from a playlist. Thanks, and sorry about clogging the BTS with such a long message about an unofficial package, - Keegan
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