[SCM] faac/master: Add README.Debian to explain why MP4 container support is disabled in the Debian package and how to rebuild it locally with added MP4 support

fabian at users.alioth.debian.org fabian at users.alioth.debian.org
Mon Nov 30 07:14:06 UTC 2015


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ff301b504fa9930a7acc1d4a8b42c22f97c74282
Author: Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 30 07:58:54 2015 +0100

    Add README.Debian to explain why MP4 container support is disabled in the Debian package and how to rebuild it locally with added MP4 support

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
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+faac for Debian
+---------------
+
+In Debian, faac is built without support for MP4 containers. This is because
+the mp4v2 library used by faac for wrapping data in MP4 containers is
+licensed under the terms of the MPL-1.1, which is incompatible with the
+(mixture of) licenses that apply for faac itself. Please note that this only
+affects the faac command line frontend, the libfaac encoding library did
+never support MP4 containers anyway.
+
+However, it is possible to locally rebuild the faac package with MP4
+support. For this, install the libmp4v2-dev package and rebuild the faac
+source package with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=mp4v2, e.g.:
+
+  $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=mp4v2 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
+
+Please keep in mind the the resulting binary packages will be 
+unredistributable!
+
+For further discussion of this topic please refer to #797838.
+
+ -- Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org>  Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:54:13 +0100

-- 
faac packaging



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