I demand that Steve Langasek may or may not have written... > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:24:49AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: [snip] >> I'll prepare a 0.5.8 update with [the fix for the segfault], but I'd like >> to know (from an RM's point of view) which of the patches in the existing >> 0.5.8-2 should make it into etch. I'd like to include, at least, the >> patches for the locking bugs (-release CC'ed for this reason).
> Why does the diff for -2 in the archive enable watchdog code? As I explained elsewhere, this is a least-change modification to work around some locking bugs. The bugs are still there; it just means that gxine won't hang around for ages if it hits one of them. > This sounds like a new feature, not a bugfix, and one that hasn't > previously been tested in Debian. It has, however, been tested elsewhere - it's enabled in Ubuntu. > I don't think such a change should be made during the freeze. Would you rather see the locking bug fixes included? <URL:http://zap.tartarus.org/~ds/hg/gxine-0.5.8-deb/?cmd=changeset;node=88aca199c66d;style=gitweb> if you want to see which patches I'd prefer to include. But for that segfault fix and the freeze, this is what I would prefer to have in the archive. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
