On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:15:01 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Julien! > > Thank you for your bug report. > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > (...) > > > > Many Android 6+ smartphones are actually affected, > > and users cannot mount them at all. > > While I agree that it is unfortunate that the current version of libmtp is > outdated and does not support recent Android devices, I disagree about the > stance that the package is "unusable". The package works fine "as is" and > the fact that not all modern hardware is supported by a Debian stable release > is expected. And since Debian testing is currently frozen, there is little to > no chance that libmtp can be updated before the release. > > If you still want to try to get the package updated, it would be helpful if > you could provide a debdiff with the changes between 1.1.12-1 and 1.1.13-1 > of libmtp. You could then ask the release team for an exception to get libmtp > updated before the Stretch release. > > In case updating libmtp before the Stretch release should not be possible, it > will still be possible to provide an updated version of the library through > strech-backports or in one of the Stretch point updates. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > > Hi Adrian,
Okay, in that case let's use it for a BPO and a future stable-updates stuff. But over time it will impact more and more people as 40% of Android users are already on Android 6+. Below is a tab on an article (sadly in French) which sums up this fact : http://www.numerama.com/tech/132165-les-versions-dandroid- les-plus-utilisees.html Rgds
