[Bug 1829] Review request: deadbeef-0.5.1 - A music player with *.cue support

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1829


Christoph Wickert <cwickert at fedoraproject.org> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Christoph Wickert <cwickert at fedoraproject.org>  2011-07-04 18:07:54 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> However, with regard to unbundling system libs, the tarball includes several
> libraries in its "plugins" subdir. Ouch.

I packaged deadbeef a while back and thought about submitting if here, but the
bundled libraries are definitely a blocker. I talked to upstream about this
issue and he said that it won't change:

> > You are bundling a lot of libraries. This is forbidden in Fedora
> > [1]. Is there a way to build against the system's versions of
> > the libraries? Remmina for example has has a configure parameter
> > --enable-vnc=dl for this.
> 
> no. most of the bundled libraries have been heavily modified, for
> better performance (e.g. not using stl in adplug and libsidplay2), to
> make them reentrant (many libs only worked in single-instance mode,
> which is not enough for my needs), to have less dependencies (e.g.
> removed glib dependency from libmms), to be compatible with more
> architectures and operating systems (arm, powerpc / android, bsd,
> solaris), etc.
> 
> > I don't want to maintain a package where I need to patch the 
> > Makefiles for every new release. Perhaps you can think of an 
> > easy way to fix this in the next deadbeef release.
> 
> i don't see how is that possible, sorry.

This being said I doubt this can go into rpmfusion.


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