Hello!
[Wed, 14 Jan 2004] guenter geiger wrote:
> Its good news that the API didn't change between 0.80.0 and 0.94.0,
> unfortunately we have 0.75.0 in testing, which is not compatible.
>
> This means that if we update jack and related packages now, we will
> have the same problem that we had with 0.75.0, that is it takes
> about half a year to get them into testing.
I believe it took half a year for 0.75.0 to get in because glibc and stuff
like python blocked it for 4 months.
> If we do not upload a new jack, it is a lot easier to update the
> applications and get them into testing directly.
Yes. Probably. Depends on the personal expectation about the release
date.
We have eleven maintainers of packages that depend on jack.
apt-cache rdepends libjack0.71.2-0 | xargs -n 1 grep-available -F Package -s
Maintainer | sort | uniq | cut -d " " -f 2-
Debian-Alsa Psychos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Eduardo Marcel Macan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ivo Timmermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Robert Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The solution would be to somehow automatically recompile everything
> against jack. This is theoretically easy and would most likely be
> successful.
> In practice I don't know, ...
I'm doing it. Let's see.
> Maybe we have to establish a "jack mini NMU policy", which means
> that those packages that are not updated and compiled against the
> new jack within say 10 days are NMU'd.
During the 0-day-NMU phase this was not needed. Failure to satisfy
build-dependencies in unstable is release-critical. We can do regular
NMUs after waiting for lets say a week and then we can do 1-week-delayed
uploads (I hope we can since auric is not shell-accessible). That should
cut down the time to about 3 weeks.
Robert.
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