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

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:51:24AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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?

OPUS is already in debian, correct? if spice is accepted with raw audio,
and later (don't want to put a date) a version with OPUS support exists,
will it be accepted as an update?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt
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