OpenAL adoption

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> [2006-02-16 14:13]:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:13:08PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>>  Oh, great! I hope you came up with a sensible solution for fixing
>> #345964 and are willing to teach upstream of the library about libtool?
> 
> Oh, you are right, I didn't notice this bug yet. 
> 
> Hm, I'm not an experienced library maintainer either, but I'm willing to
> learn about it. According to the ChangeLog, upstream intends to switch
> to libtool anyway. So this problem will be probably adressed with the
> next upstream version.

 Hopefully. Please check carefully then.

> Do you think it makes sense to upload openal as is in svn in the current
> state, and leave the RC bug open, or shall we upgrade to the latest
> upstream 'release' (actually a newer svn snapshot packaged as tarball),
> and address #352950 at once?

 I don't think that snapshots will help here, only if you are completely
sure that they won't change the ABI/API level in the svn anymore until
the release. Otherwise you'll create the same problems for the final
release again.

 Again, please check carefully if the new release sets a proper ABI/API
level; that is, it has to at least differ from 1, resulting in a
libopenal1 package.

>>  I don't think that I'm good to co-maintain it, but I really want the
>> library in a good shape because qcake will depend on it, and hunting
>> after every openal change that might occur without any sane handling of
>> the library is just a horror.
> 
> Well, another reason why group maintenance in pkg-games makes sense, no?
> ;)

 Erm... Rather fix the problem in one place where it comes from than
cast it on all the depending packages, not? :)  It's nothing related to
pkg-games, and not even related to libraries. Even if it might be the
easier task for the problem at hand for a single package, one should
never forget about the bigger picture and the overall quality...

 So long,
Alfie
-- 
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vor Weihnachten kommt, wegen dem Weihnachtsgeschäft, und so.
         -- Daniel <daniel at aib.uni-linz.ac.at> über Debian `woody' release
               http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2002/3998.html
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