On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:20:22PM +0930, Ron wrote: > > (iii) the fix should work fine in stable and backports as well - > > stable already had support for multiarch > > But squeeze does not, and that's still a supported release. And lots > of people have contacted me about the backports they are doing for it > for things they are shipping.
Ah, I hadn't quite appreciated that. > > (iv) a significant number of people have used the patch with success > > > > Please do reconsider applying this patch to the current not-yet-stable > > release of opus! It will also indicate if there are as-yet unforeseen > > problems afoot which would otherwise bite if it were applied to the > > as-yet-to-be-released stable version. > > As you said, it's orthogonal, so there's no reason to believe there will > be any problems on this front - and even if there are, there's plenty of > life left in sid before the next freeze to deal with those. > > If you want to put a patched version in experimental, or in a private > archive somewhere, that's fine. But I really want to keep the version > in testing/unstable trivially backportable until we're less worried > about important updates not getting pulled by other developers because > we made it harder for _them_. I guess that anyone who can figure out how to download it from experimental can figure out how to rebuild it for themselves ;-) But I might do this as a service to those who need it to be built for them. I am confused, though, how the wheezy problem will be overcome once there's a stable version of opus released, but I guess you'll figure that one out. Thanks, Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
