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

[Michael Tokarev]

On 13.06.2012 04:57, Brian Vetter wrote:
> As an outside observer with nothing really at stake here, it would seem that rather than Debian providing a hobbled version of the spice client that uses raw audio (disables Celt), they offer up a patch for both the server and the client that implements a negotiation for either Opus or Celt (for backwards compatibility). A spice client without Opus could utilize Celt and one that only supports Opus could negotiate with the server for Opus. The fall back for either is the raw PPM data.

1. Celt051 will not be in debian, for the reasons outlined several times before.

2. I stepped in trying to write a patch in question when the alternative was
 to drop spice from debian due to its dependency on celt.  I don't know neither
 spice nor celt nor opus to be able to write something more serious.

3. We've about a week or two before debian release freeze, after which time
 no new software will be accepted into debian.

Care to explain how realistic your proposal is?

Thanks,

/mjt