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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Joshua Kwan
  • Date: 2007-05-29 22:56:36 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.4 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20070529225636-ljeff8xxip09qaap
Tags: 1.1.4-1
http://bugs.debian.org/405167
http://bugs.debian.org/411311
* New upstream release. closes: #405167, #411311
  - libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++ have been merged into libFLAC, so
    remove their corresponding packages.
  - Because of the API changes required to effect the above, there has
    been yet another soname bump. libflac7 -> libflac8 and
    libflac++5 -> libflac++6. Emails have been dispatched to the
    maintainers of dependent packages.
* Some notes on patches that were removed:
  - 02_stdin_stdout, 06_manpage_mention_utf8_convert: merged upstream
  - 08_manpage_warnings: Upstream has changed the manpage so it defintely
    can't fit in in 80 cols, so just forget about it. We'll live.
  - 05_eof_warnings_are_errors: Upstream decided to add a -w option to
    flac to treat all warnings as errors. I am going to defer to that
    for now, but if people think it's stupid let me know and I'll port
    the patch forward.
  - 04_stack_smasher: was a backport from 1.1.3, so it's obsolete.

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                Since FLAC is an open-source project, it's important to have a set of goals that everyone works to.  They may change slightly from time to time but they're a good guideline.  Changes should be in line with the goals and should not attempt to embrace any of the anti-goals!
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                        FLAC should be and stay an open format with an open-source reference implementation.
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                        FLAC should be lossless.  This seems obvious but lossy compression seems to creep into every audio codec.  This goal also means that flac should stay archival quality and be truly lossless for all input.  Testing of releases should be thorough.
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                        FLAC should yield respectable compression, on par or better than other lossless codecs.
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                        FLAC should allow at least realtime decoding on even modest hardware.
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                        FLAC should support fast sample-accurate seeking.
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                        FLAC should allow gapless playback of consecutive streams.  This follows from the lossless goal.
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                        The FLAC project owes a lot to the many people who have advanced the audio compression field so freely, and aims also to contribute through the open-source development of new ideas.
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                        Lossy compression.  There are already many suitable lossy formats (<A HREF="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html">Ogg Vorbis</A>, <A HREF="http://www.mp3-tech.org/">MP3</A>, etc.).
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                        Copy prevention of any kind.
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