Rekindle jack implementation swapping discussion (was Re: Request to join the Debian Multimedia Team)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 03:27:58PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>Moving this to a new thread to make sure it gets noticed.
>
>On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:08:24AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 21:01:04 (CEST), Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I want to join the Debian Multimedia Package Maintainers Team. (whatever
>> > it's called) My alioth username is alexandrequessy-guest.
>> I also see that you are familiar with jack. The most pressing question
>> is to if we do want to enable users to switch their jack implementation
>> in squeeze. Currently that's not possible, but ideas how to rearrange
>> packages, shlibs files and provides have been proposed. I have to admit
>> that I've lost track and don't know if they are still being considered
>> of if everyone has lost motivation to actually implement them. Perhaps
>> you (or someone else) can try to pickup that discussion?
>>
>> I've already announced on #debian-release a few days ago that we might
>> require such a transition, but we'd also need to write a more formal
>> email to debian-release for that.
>
>My current understanding is that, yes, we want it to happen. The main
>issue is people who know how having the time to make it happen.
>
>If memory serves, Adrian knows the jack code and upstream the best of
>anyone here. Reinhard knows about library magic stuff from working on
>ffmpeg. Jonas knows lots of cdbs magic that might be helpful.
>
>Do any of the three of you have time in the very near future to push
>this forward?

I have time to look at the CDBS parts, but not to discuss much.

I notice how Adrian now propose to revive jackd1 as I proposed earlier 
on.  Yes, it is more complicated to do it now than back then when not 
yet released to unstable.  Needs either renamed packages or adding an 
epoch, I believe (vut kust throwing mud here - as noted I do not have 
enough time to discuss, so will try not to defend my claims here - if 
anyone disagrees then please just ignore instead of shooting it down).


  - Jonas

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