Hi Henrique, Thanks very much for detailing the steps involved in getting this patch into a stable Debian 9 release. It looks like I have to do a bunch of testing before I file a bug to get this change into a stable Debian 9 release or even a backport.
Regards, Dinesh On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, backports is alwasy easier. But it reaches a lot less people. > Your choice, really. > > -- > Henrique Holschuh > >
