Hello, I think it is fair to say that there is increasing frustration from users and developers w.r.t. the state of VLC in Debian & Ubuntu. I am left wondering what is the best way forward...
1) Debian stable Some time ago, one of the Debian Security (testing or stable, I honestly don't remember) complained that the VideoLAN project security update process was less than optimal. Guess what? It's been almost 3 months since we released VLC 1.0.6, and still Debian Stable ships the same security holes. If we are doing less than optimal, Debian Stable is doing outright PATHETIC. 2) Ubuntu current version Sooner or later, someone will find a security hole in VLC 1.0.6. If not for security, there are known critical bugs already. For a start, the Mozilla plugin just crashes. Always. If I understand right, Reinhard considered making a PPA, whereas Benjamin suggested VideoLAN make a PPA. Either way, I am concerned that this will cause a flood of untraceable Apport crash reports. How are we supposed to fix that? 3) Ubuntu LTS At this point in the spacetime continuum, LTS is the current version. But what should be done in a few months when it's not the case anymore? 4) Ubuntu older versions Ubuntu happily ships VLC with known security holes. WTH? -- Rémi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis _______________________________________________ vlc-devel mailing list To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options: http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
