Bug#739439: opal: diff for NMU version 3.12.8~dfsg-1.1

[Eugen Dedu]

On 03/05/14 20:01, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>
> On 03.05.2014 13:55, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> On 03/05/14 18:02, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> tags 739439 + patch
>>> tags 739439 + pending
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Dear maintainer,
>>>
>>> I've prepared an NMU for opal (versioned as 3.12.8~dfsg-1.1) and intend
>>> to upload it to experimental soon. I'm not uploading because I thinking
>>> about how to workaround #728452.
>>>
>>> Please share any concerns that you have about that patch with me.
>>
>> Thank you very much Reinhard for the patch and for testing, and sorry
>> for not having had the time to do it.
>>
>> I looked at the patch and it seems fine to me.
>>
>> But why do you work on opal 3.12.8?  It is not maintained anymore, and
>> current version is 3.14.  I plan to package 3.14 in the next months and
>> replace 3.12.8, which thus will never hit unstable/testing.  So better
>> to patch 3.10.10 version.
>
> Because that is the version in unstable and I'm not sure if we really
> want to do both a libav and a libpt/libopal transition at the same time.
>
> I did check with the latest upstream version, and the code did not seem
> to have changed much upstream; I'd therefore expect the patch to apply
> just fine.
>
> Please let me know if you have any further questions about it.

There is a misunderstanding.  Unstable has 3.10 and experimental has 
3.12.  Your patch is against 3.12.  3.12 will not reach unstable, and 
will disappear when 3.14 will be packaged.  So the version to be patched 
is 3.10.

-- 
Eugen