Hi all, I emailed Gabriel about our concerns on the 1.3.4 release of LiVES currently available in Squeeze, some lines from our discussion follow:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, September 16, 2010 11:36, Alessio Treglia wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Regarding long term support - I am still finding bugs on a weekly basis >>> in >>> the 1.0.x series so that is currently the lts branch. Once that bug rate >>> drops off, I will make a final 1.0.10 release, freeze that branch, and >>> then just maintain a "list of known bugs in 1.0.x". Then I will fork a >>> branch of 1.3.x;but it is now too late to fork from 1.3.4 (and I don't >>> have the resources to support more than 1 stable and 1 development >>> branch). So the next lts version will be based on whatever is the >>> current >>> version when I release 1.0.10 (which is currently 1.3.9). >> >> I understand. >> Given things as they are now, how hard/easy would be the backport of >> bugfixes to the current release in Debian squeeze? >> I must be sure that 1.3.4 release at least won't be totally abandoned >> in the next few months. >> >> Again, thanks for the great job! >> >> -- >> Alessio Treglia <[email protected]> >> Debian & Ubuntu Developer | Homepage: http://www.alessiotreglia.com >> 0FEC 59A5 E18E E04F 6D40 593B 45D4 8C7C DCFC 3FD0 >> > > I think it would be difficult, because one would have to look at all of > the patches between that release and now, and determine which were bug > fixes and which were new features, then apply only the bugfixes. The > problem is that some of the patches may combine a bug fix with part of a > new feature This happens sometimes if I am working on a particularly > lengthy new feature, and I discover a bug mid way through. so it would > need somebody to go through each patch and mark only the bug fix parts. > Since there have been almost 100 checkins since 1.3.4 you can see the > difficulty. > > If its any consolation, I do expect the switch over in lts from 1.0.x to > 1.3.x to happen pretty soon now, I can aim to do that before the release > of squeeze. -- Alessio Treglia <[email protected]> Debian & Ubuntu Developer | Homepage: http://www.alessiotreglia.com 0FEC 59A5 E18E E04F 6D40 593B 45D4 8C7C DCFC 3FD0 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
