[Flac-dev] packaging flac for debian

[Britton]

Hmm, I wonder how the package search I originally did for it failed.  I
guess I have a couple wnpp bugs close, but no other work wasted.

Britton

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:08:56PM -0900, Britton wrote:
>
> > The users of debian have been without high quality lossless audio compression
> > too long, I say.  I am therefore packaging flac for debian.  Having your
> > program debian packaged is a great new source of bug reports (both forwarded
> > from me where appropriate and sent in directly from misguided users when I
> > screw up :), so I thought I'd say hello now.
>
> Please check the Debian archives before making an announcement like this.
> Really, you should check the WNPP bug list and the mailing list archives for
> debian-devel, but in this case you only had to use apt, as flac is already
> packaged and in the archive:
>
> mizar:[~] apt-cache search flac
> flac - Free Lossless Audio Coder - command line tools
> libflac-dev - Free Lossless Audio Coder - development library
> libflac0 - Free Lossless Audio Coder - runtime library
> xmms-flac - Free Lossless Audio Coder - XMMS input plugin
> mizar:[~]
>
> --
>  - mdz
>