Important or serious bug in loudmouth + libasyncns

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 24/11/10 14:31, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just faced a bug accros several packages, that has the effect of
> rendering any Jabber client based on loudmouth unusable on armel.
>
> This is the bug #566143. Here is a summary:
> * loudmouth embeds a copy of libasyncns, version 0.3, that fails on
>    armel;
> * the packages libasyncns is version 0.3 too, so it is affected as well.
>
> I would like to help fixing that, but I am not sure of how to proceed.
> My guess is that loudmouth should be patched to use the packaged
> libasyncns, and that libasyncns should be updated.
>
> I shall work to fix both bugs, but I think none of them would be able to
> get into Squeeze, as they are not release-critical, even though they
> render other packages unusable. When Squeeze is released, would
> squeeze-backport packages be a good solution for that?

Would the release team accept such changes into Squeeze? If this bug makes 
packages unusable on armel, it may qualify as RC.

Regards,
Emilio