-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/20/2015 12:52 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > I need roaraudio for myself? He is my buddy? I don't know him at > all :o John: please stop writing e-mails like this..
It's Adrian, not John, and I am just quoting Ron who certainly isn't making this stuff up. It has apparently always Stephan who came forward and ask for ROAR audio reactivation. >> If you desperately need ROAR audio in cmus, then you can rebuild >> it manually. Debian should not keep packages that are dead >> upstream, especially when it comes to network libraries. There is >> _always_ the risk of these being the source of RC bugs. > > This is defintily not the Debian packaging way: "just some people > want to use it: build it yourself" It's definitely the Debian way when a certain package functionality that maybe a handful people need breaks other packages. Then it's your duty as a good Debian maintainer to get rid of the old and broken stuff. And there have been more than one bug report against ROAR that asked to drop the DECnet dependency and you keep ignoring them. >> I have fixed dozens of such packages during the Wheezy release >> phase with NMU uploads because the original maintainer was MIA >> and we really should try to avoid such problems in future >> releases. > > Thanks for fixing RC bugs, this is our job @ Debian :) You are missing the point. I don't have a problem with fixing RC bugs. I have a problem having to fix RC bugs in packages that no one really uses anymore. In case you have forgotten, the release process for Wheezy was dragged along endlessly because the amount of RC bugs would simply not go down. Among such bugs were gems like Iceweasel crashing on sparc or libsnack (used by aMSN) having a buffer overflow vulnerability. Do you really think it's justified to hold the release back because of such ancient software? They introduced automatic removal of packages affected by RC bugs for this very reason and the fact that DECnet is no longer maintained means that ROAR is permanently at risk being affected by RC bugs unless you think you can fix vulnerabilities or other serious bug in an ancient networking stack. 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVhUhaAAoJEHQmOzf1tfkTZycQALLrt1ECi9I7T0CfD0FsE5ez YAs8s4oqQoByvjxHNNz1Gxvnjb/JS4Amr15FHZ4YjqYYv+/5j0zBoj8JLCUB/j/P OORjTagETPg3oYkej/XAiFH95eOoXf8BMPE5PvQkEAFfHv87nV7ou93yRWVEjZsh cFR1QDjot4ERwKnFqnDdyvvtfrtCfbzRrCrZ9u6jkWiqFi/wjL7bWLERweASfIWQ rn9sQ004uk2Y0euc5TXSoRcM4TuW4IWSUorfUbjC6CSiCu6MZZ1iSqVIe2ls4sFQ 5O/40GbWQbUhzzkBt+iPOD6lWqfn4BVEjwYTaq2XOAAFipBE8Lub7INcGLZ/aIb6 jjy8Sz/r9J5baJMiyXjiWR6LjgmbtE5JyCCU3J1WAzL8EpveLBsqmKXIspWcFoUX pvxGi8nqUoAkg2aJkpAoGbZuQo2Pt37K196ZNmvMgn4hG0ELqYLUD6z6jsIENOUj msmEPqvm1B7KwMIXMZmZhPAehPJmkRJ7SYJ0SpYzaXyjO+0bmgJ2VZlE90vrwStq 1b8p9CbGT7tH3zYv/qKAVn6DlDIeqh9Yzr2wC8Md9Y+rFiddCv1J+3vH9eczEP6D GbzyCK451bOooRCnq/22FyaGNhb7rEDrjLgeqVeMVeItMS2xPZ23AnqtHz5Q5mcx igChqM7E9jkKge2Ky4wl =2CmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
