Bug#342874: [pkg-mad-maintainers] Bug#342874: madplay: Madplay should provide mp3-decoder

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:55:52PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Package: madplay
> Version: 0.15.2b-4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> 	Hi all!
> 
> It would be nice if madplay could provide the virtual package
> mp3-decoder.
> Obviously it is an mp3-decoder, and in some situation, it is one of the
> better, so I think it would deserve it!

I don't believe there should be a virtual package for an
mp3-decoder.  This would require that they all have some common
interface, which they don't.

But on the other hand the policy defines an mp3-decoder as a
virtual package, only saying "an MP3 decoder package", and the
bug requesting it (#64006) doesn't provide much information
either.

Should something like libmad0 then also be an mp3-decoder,
because that is the part that does the decoding.


Kurt