Andres Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What is the status about openal? > > Basically, the old library (OpenAL SI from creative) is deprecated in favor > of > OpenAL Soft. Right now I'm currently waiting for someone to upload > openal-soft to the archive. > >> I think if we want to have that one in >> lenny, we should upload it RIGHT NOW to unstable, so that package >> maintainers do have a chance to adapt their packages > > Yes it should be uploaded right away. I've notified the package maintainers > of > packages that depend|build-depend on openal a month ago. I've yet to receive > any response.
Still, you didn't communicate this with debian-release, which I'm doing now with this email. Release Team: We really want to replace the current openal package with openal-soft. I just uploaded the package to experimental, in order to get it through NEW. Please read #473128 for an analysis with the replacement. Executive summary: the new package is basically an soname bump, all reverse depends need to be rebuilt. This has been tested, only one package is problematic: boson. We expect that this issue can be handled befor the lenny release. I know that currently 2 transitions are ongoing: ffmpeg and poppler. openal should not interfere, but I wanted to get the green light before starting a third one. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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