Bug#508114: jack-audio-connection-kit: Uploading new version to fix alpha FTBFS

[Reinhard Tartler]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.release as well.

Hi Luk, hi debian-release,

Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org> writes:

> |--==> On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:32:47 +0100, Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> said:
>   >>The new version is 100% backward compatible, as a matter of fact there
>   >>were no changes in the lib's API or ABI, just a lot of fixes in the
>   >>code of the *jackd* server, which is built from the same sources.
>
>   LC> Well, it's still way too much to review, so we would prefer a targeted
>   LC> fix to be uploaded to testing-proposed-updates.
>
> I understand your position. But if this can help changing your mind,
> please note that the 0.116.1 jack package in sid has been tested by
> several 64 Studio [0] users running lenny/sid and reports have all
> been positive.
>
> It would be a real pity to release lenny with the buggy 0.109.0,
> again, the upstream developers deprecate it:
>
> "I am happy to announce the release of JACK 0.116.0. This is an
> important release, because it fixes all the problems reported with
> 0.115.6 and now makes 0.109.2 completely obsolete. Nobody should be
> using 0.109.2 within a few weeks, and even that is only to allow for
> distributions to update." [1]

could you please reconsider jack 0.116.0? According to [1], upstream
suggests that "nobody should be using 0.109.2", the version we currently
have in testing.

Moreover it would really help packages like xine-lib and others (58
packages in total) that build-depend on libjack-dev to migrate to
testing.

If you are stating clearly that you reject the new upstream version, we
can consider reverting the package in unstable. However this would be,
as explained above, against upstream's suggestion..


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