On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:21:52PM +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: > Nevertheless, we need to start at some (hopefully) near point in the > future and find out what breaks with the new stack, which means > switching to libraw1394-2.0.x, first. > > Stefan Richter and me have fixed a crash in libraw1394-2.0.0's ARM code. > libraw1394-2.0.0 claims to be transparently backward compatible with the > old stack, the one which was just re-enabled. So I don't see why not to > update libraw1394. [...]
There is a good reason not to update to libraw1394-2.0.0, and that is that instead of working, it crashes with certain applications. Let me put it clear that Debian is not a dumping ground for buggy software. Most users are not interested in bèta-testing, they want _working_ software. Even those using unstable. Once libraw1394 does not crash with all programs I test anymore, I will at least put it in experimental. When the basic functionality is working fine and applications depending on libraw1394 are useable to some extent again, I will certainly upload it to unstable. Note that we are in a freeze, so until lenny is released I can not upload libraw1394-2.x to unstable anyway, only to experimental. > Next week, libraw1394-2.0.1 is expected to be released, including all > the fixes we have so far. That is great. I will try it out as soon as it is released, and if it no longer crashes I will upload it to experimental. > Note that Juju still doesn't support everything we had on the old stack, > especially when talking about ISO streaming. Until this known bug which is fixed I will not upload the new libraw1394 to unstable, since it would break applications which work with the older versions of libraw1394. > We'd also need some more system integration, perhaps the Fedora way?: > > > http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration#Permissions_and_ownership_for_.2Fdev.2Ffw.2A That looks nice, I'll use that. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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