On 9 March 2016 at 10:56, Martin Steghöfer <mar...@steghoefer.eu> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> >> I think there is a misunderstanding here. The deprecation of the APIs this >> patch >> is about happened several years ago, so fixing the code is certainly not >> premature, >> rather the contrary. The goal is that all Debian packages are ready for >> the new >> upstream release, where these long deprecated APIs have been removed, when >> it >> gets released. Otherwise the transition will be (a lot) less smooth. >> So please don't keep waiting. >> >> [...] >> >> I don't really understand this as you can test the replacement APIs with >> any release >> of the recent years. The only thing you can't test (without compiling from >> upstream >> git) is whether it will build with the new version of ffmpeg. But you >> don't have >> to test that, because I (compile-)tested my patch with upstream git. > > > I do trust in the fact that the API is stable, and if the API is well > specified and the implementation follows it, then there shouldn't be a > problem. But you know how it is, there can always be unexpected runtime > behaviors in the gray areas of the API, or implementations that don't > completely respect what is specified in the API. And since I depend on > sponsors, I'd like to make sure the update is complete. > > But anyway, since you offered a sponsor for the upload (see below), I don't > mind uploading a version that is not yet tested with the new FFmpeg 2.9, as > long as it works with the current FFmpeg (which I tested). > >> I'm sure Felipe Sateler (who kindly offered to help with uploads for this >> transition) >> would be willing to sponsor this upload, like he did for dvbcut [1]. >> >> So as a way forward I suggest: >> * You prepare a package with this fix. >> * Optionally let me know how to test it, and I'll test with upstream >> git. >> * We ask Felipe to sponsor the upload. >> >> Does that sound good to you? > > > Sounds great. Please find the new version of the package in the package's > git repository: https://github.com/martin-steghoefer/debian-karlyriceditor
Please update the changelog fully to add the bug closure and upload distro (if you want, you can do it on a different branch that is only merged to master once the package is in the archive). -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
