> Btw. I was wondering, how much we care about downstream distributions. > This package, as it currently is in the "master" branch, compiles with > Libav10 (i.e. it works with Debian jessie and Debian sid). Ubuntu 14.04 > currently has Libav9 and as I'm mainly working on Ubuntu, I've patched > things up so it also works with Libav9. However, this complicates the patch > a little bit - which is unnecessary, if we only look after Debian itself. > So for the moment, I'm keeping those changes in a separate branch. Should > this go into the Debian package? > https://github.com/martin-steghoefer/debian-karlyriceditor/commit/ > ce95e10ffc4d4e3c7c61a24be4841a2d2f8d4f8c > > Well, you are supposed to target what's in there in unstable if you want your package to be accepted in the archive. Afterwards, Ubuntu will automatically pick it up for its current development version (14.10 or 15.04) depending on how fast the upload to Debian goes. Regarding support for 14.04, this could be done by requesting a backport from the Ubuntu package of a newer release (14.10 or 15.04) and then adding your 14.04 specific patching to the backported package.
Hope that helps, Ghis
