faac is missing its mp4 options

[Forest]

The faac distributed in Ubuntu Saucy is missing its mp4-specific options, such as -w and --artist.

Investigation reveals that upstream debian patches made faac depend on an external libmp4v2 library for these options, but failed to add the appropriate Build-Depends: line to the control file. The result is a binary with no mp4v2 support at all, which reduces functionality and breaks other software (like gtkpod).

The solution is to add Build-Depends: libmp4v2-dev to the control file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anthony Fok (foka)]

It is a known issue, and it was not an oversight. See:

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/382703/faac-in-ubuntu-13-10-doesnt-support-mp4

It was removed due to licensing issues -

faac (1.28-5) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Andres Mejia ]
  * Disable mp4v2 support.
    This only disables mp4v2 for the faac utility program. The faac
    utility is GPL-2 but the mp4v2 library is MPL-1.1. The two licenses
    are incompatible with each other.

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * Revise debian/copyright
  * Bump standards version (no changes needed)

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:09:31 +0200

Which means that Debian and Ubuntu cannot distributed faac with mp4v2 support until this licensing issue is resolved.
In the mean time, it is probably the easiest to rebuild faac ourselves with libmp4v2-dev installed.

[Forest (foresto)]

The lack of these options leaves gtkpod in a broken state. It is silently failing to put music files on an iPod due to the missing options.

All that's really needed to fix it is for Build-Depends: libmp4v2-dev to be added to the control file.