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[Julian Cable]

Oops. Sorry. Pressed the wrong button. 

Julian

> On 10 Nov 2014, at 05:37, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> please don't drop the list from CC, we are discussing a team-maintained
> package.
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 09.11.2014, 03:59 -0800 schrieb Julian Cable: 
>> I've just asked myself the same question - I had a go at making the
>> changes and it all worked fine. If we add the new libraries to the
>> existing packages, there is really only a change to the Makefile.am
>> and it's all done!
> 
> I see. I would have prefered the "long" way of running "./configure
> --with-drm", then "make", then rename and backup the library, "make
> clean" and repeat without "--with-drm". But checking configure.in, I see
> that the only difference between a build "--with-drm" and a build
> without is actually the two #defines that you add, so I think your way
> is even the cleaner solution.
> 
>> I've raised tickets on the upstream projects for this but I don't know
>> if Menno Bakker can make time to do a new release. It could be done as
>> a Debian patch and i've made the patch files (you would need to review
>> and modify the metadata in these).
> 
> I am afraid that upstream is pretty dead now. The latest releases are
> more than 5 years old, Menno is working on something different
> professionally, I believe, and the latest changes I proposed on the
> sourceforge bug tracker weren't even merged by himself anymore, but by
> someone else (and this is even more than two years ago).
> 
>> In my experiments I added new binary packages, but I think this is a
>> bad idea.
> 
> Why do you think so? I think this should be discussed with the team.
> 
> - Fabian
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