On 2018-05-05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote: >> "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of >> GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version, but it >> should just cleanly apply to the older versions." >> >> The patch that needs to be applied is: >> https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-plugins-base/commit/9f9000e693694ea33c21607140ffc29aa1734062#diff-acf6f1abae3d918458c7a91ce8a0b3ad >> >> Is this something that would be possible to do? This would really help me >> as this stall is a show stopper for my application. > > Talking in the general way, yes, it is possible. I am not one of the > DDs responsible for gstream, though. So all I can tell you is how it > would go for one of the packages I am responsible for: > > Since a stable update is needed, one has to go the long way to get the > Debian stable release manager to approve it (it doesn't depend only on > the DD responsible for the package). > > First, you get the fix into unstable (either through a patch, or by > ensuring an already fixed version is present). And wait for it to > migrate to testing (usually, five-seven days).
[...] At this point wouldn't it be easier to get the fix into stretch-backports?
