[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] MPD 0.21 in buster

[Geoff]

Florian, Max

On 14/11/2018 09:21, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2018/11/13 23:19, Florian Schlichting <fsfs at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Is there any plan to ship MPD 0.21 in buster?
>>> […]
> […]
> Other than that bug fix, the protocol hasn't "changed quite
> significantly" - there are numerous new features, for example the
> filter expressions, but the old filter syntax still works, of course.
> 
> The old 0.20 branch is now unmaintained.  Several old bugs have
> already been fixed in 0.21 which remain unfixed in 0.20.

At first I thought quite like Florian that it could be safer to keep
0.20 in buster. But I only had a quick look at the 0.21 release, not
even got time to play with. I might have overlooked the protocol changes
for instance.

Then 0.20 being unmaintained from now on and the fact that protocol
changes are backward compatible I believe shipping 0.21 in buster is
probably a better trade-off.


> On 2018/11/13 23:19, Florian Schlichting <fsfs at debian.org> wrote:
> I think MPD 0.21 is still very new, and I'm not sure there's enough time
> for it to stabilize enough so we can have a version included in buster
> by late January that will remain largely unchanged for the lifetime of
> that release.

Even if debian ship a "not stabilize enough" 0.21 release in buster,
this branch is at least maintained upstream and it will be easier to
backport patches for the version buster got freeze with (IMHO, I'm not a
DD). Again, I think it's probably a better trade-off.

Cheers
Geoff