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Bug 275013 - media-sound/lame bundles a copy of mpglib from media-sound/mpg123 (while it's now available as shared library and in LGPL)
Summary: media-sound/lame bundles a copy of mpglib from media-sound/mpg123 (while it's...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Sound Team
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Reported: 2009-06-22 03:40 UTC by Samuli Suominen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2011-11-06 18:10 UTC (History)
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Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-06-22 03:40:33 UTC 
as summary says..
Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-22 12:47:01 UTC 
Thomas, do you know if LAME has plans for using the shared lib from mpg123 ? 

I doubt this is trivial though, last time I checked it was quite a different beast.
Comment 3 Thomas Orgis 2010-05-22 15:27:58 UTC 
They are different things atm., recently, lame folks invested work to switch to some other mpg123 fork they had in the repo for some time, to get lame LGPL-clean. While there is tentative support for the idea to make lame use libmpg123 instead, they don't have the will/manpower to change just again.
Also, this effort would involve adding some special API to libmpg123 for the frame analyzer, which might come anyway, but not just yet.

So, for a user that is not willing to step up to work on this, the two instances of mpg123-derived code are a fact and will stay that way.

Side-hint at another mpg123 fork: MPlayer might switch to libmpg123, if my patch for that gets through some time (there's also manpower lacking to get it tested, apparently).

To reiterate: Lame's mpglib is _not_ just a copy. It's a fork of older mpg123 code.
Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-11-06 18:10:31 UTC 
Close as per Comment #3