[Spice-devel] [PATCH] make celt to be optional

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:44:56PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> (Mind you, it wasn't me who decided that celt is somehow bad to
> have in Debian, and I myself does not understand the issues 100%.
> One of the issues, iirc, is that celt does not compile/work on
> anything but x86).

I think the main issue debian has with our spice use is that we require an
old version for compatibility reasons, and debian does not want to ship
this older version just for spice.

> >    They should disable audio completely if it's the
> > case. I would be more in favour of a patch --disable-audio instead.
> 
> It was one of alternatives.  For the reasons I already mentioned
> (raw pcm isn't bad), making celt optional has been choosen, as
> it appears to be less restrictive for the user.

While it's sad that spice won't be able to use celt on debian, it's
probably better than no spice support at all, at least this means things
will work locally/on LAN. This indeed also means people evaluating SPICE
on Debian for WAN use will have worse results than what they could have.
The ideal solution would be to have support for Opus, I think Marc André
and Alon had started to look into that, but that's not done yet :(

Christophe
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