Bug 829546

Summary: KID3-2.1 is available
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gerald Cox <gbcox>
Component: kid3Assignee: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Gerald Cox 2012-06-07 02:28:03 UTC
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Latest upstream release:  2.1
Current release in F17:  2.0.1-2

According to the Fedora build system, the 2.1 release has been built and put in the F18 repository:  
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=318666

This 2.1 release contains bug fixes and additional functionality.  Can it be made available in the F17 repository?

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Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2012-06-07 14:28:22 UTC
Most likely not, because in 2.1 musicbrainz support requires ffmpeg which cannot be included in Fedora, and thus upgrading to 2.1 in F-17 would mean loss of functionality which as I interpret it is against the intent of Fedora's stable release updates policy.

At least kid3-qt from Rawhide works on F-17 (yum --enablerepo=rawhide upgrade kid-qt).  Haven't checked the main kid3 package, but if you need the features in 2.1, I suggest trying out the F-18 build.

Comment 2 Gerald Cox 2012-06-09 18:26:15 UTC
Thanks for your response, but I'm confused... if there is a problem with 2.1 regarding ffmpeg why is it in the F-18 repository?  

Would it be better to then move kid3 then to the RPMFUSION repository or are there plans to compartmentalize the musicbrainz functionality as a separate plugin in the same manner that amarok/qmmp etc. handle mp3 support?  In other words, the main program would remain in Fedora, but the musicbrainz part would be in rpmfusion.

Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2012-06-09 19:06:43 UTC
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> Thanks for your response, but I'm confused... if there is a problem with 2.1
> regarding ffmpeg why is it in the F-18 repository?

Changing feature sets between releases are a fact of life, and Fedora is a forward moving distribution, and F-18 is the development repo, most bleeding edge of it.  I'm not sure if this is what you asked though - there's no ffmpeg in Fedora so there's no problem with it in kid3 either...

I have no idea about your second question but I will point out to upstream what the ffmpeg dependency means to the kid3 package in Fedora.