Am 20.06.2015 um 13:02 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 06/20/2015 12:52 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> I need roaraudio for myself? He is my buddy? I don't know him at >> all :o John: please stop writing e-mails like this.. > > It's Adrian, not John, and I am just quoting Ron who certainly isn't > making this stuff up. It has apparently always Stephan who came forward > and ask for ROAR audio reactivation.
No, it was your e-mail. To quote it again: "except you and your buddy Patrick." Stop it, seriously.. > >>> If you desperately need ROAR audio in cmus, then you can rebuild >>> it manually. Debian should not keep packages that are dead >>> upstream, especially when it comes to network libraries. There is >>> _always_ the risk of these being the source of RC bugs. > >> This is defintily not the Debian packaging way: "just some people >> want to use it: build it yourself" > > It's definitely the Debian way when a certain package functionality > that maybe a handful people need breaks other packages. Then it's > your duty as a good Debian maintainer to get rid of the old and > broken stuff. And there have been more than one bug report against > ROAR that asked to drop the DECnet dependency and you keep ignoring > them. This is not true. Please attach links/emails where I ignored bug reports/requests (on other channels). > >>> I have fixed dozens of such packages during the Wheezy release >>> phase with NMU uploads because the original maintainer was MIA >>> and we really should try to avoid such problems in future >>> releases. > >> Thanks for fixing RC bugs, this is our job @ Debian :) > > You are missing the point. I don't have a problem with fixing RC > bugs. I have a problem having to fix RC bugs in packages that > no one really uses anymore. In case you have forgotten, the > release process for Wheezy was dragged along endlessly because > the amount of RC bugs would simply not go down. Among such bugs > were gems like Iceweasel crashing on sparc or libsnack (used > by aMSN) having a buffer overflow vulnerability. Do you really > think it's justified to hold the release back because of such > ancient software? OK, so lets drop iceweasel? This is definitly offtopic here > > They introduced automatic removal of packages affected by RC > bugs for this very reason and the fact that DECnet is no longer > maintained means that ROAR is permanently at risk being affected > by RC bugs unless you think you can fix vulnerabilities or > other serious bug in an ancient networking stack. Lets drop package XYZ: it may have got issues we didn't discovered, yet.. -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org */
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