On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 14:50 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
We went over this before - codecs is a useless package, and the licensing is broken. We have opensource alternatives that play just about every format except a few outliers (real media).
I'm rebuilding xine-lib right now with codecs removed. Apparently it's an optional dep anyway, as I've been running xine fine without it for some time. mplayer-svn is the last package that depends on the non-free and useless codecs package, so if we can get that rebuilt, we're gold.
Now the real question: what do we do with this package. I'm sure it's useful to some people. Should we stick it in unsupported with a warning that no TUs should adopt it? Should we remove it altogether? Opinions?
There's also gstremer0.10-pitfdll on i686 that uses it. If codecs is removed, that package should be removed too.