Gnash 0.8.8 has just been released - Asking for an exception to the freeze

Miriam Ruiz miriam at debian.org
Sat Aug 28 19:49:28 UTC 2010


2010/8/23 Miriam Ruiz <miriam at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Gnash 0.8.8 has just been released today [1]. I think that the big
> improvements and the lack of reverse dependencies might make it a
> suitable candidate for an exclusion to the freeze. Moving Gnash 0.8.8
> to Squeeze won't affect any other package.
>
> I have uploaded it to experimental, in order for anyone who wants to
> take a look at it to be able to examine it and give some feedback
> before moving it to sid.
>
> Improvements since the 0.8.7 release are:
>
>    * 100% of all YouTube videos should work. If you have problems,
>      delete all YouTube cookies and refresh.
>    * Gnash can switch at runtime between the Cairo, OpenGL, and AGG
>      renderers.
>    * Gnash can switch media handlers at runtime, too, between FFmpeg
>      and Gstreamer,
>    * Gnash can now decode video quickly on hardware compatible with the
>      VAAPI library (a few NVidia, ATI, and Intel graphics processors).
>    * Gnash now compiles faster due to reduced internal dependencies.
>    * Scriptable Plugin support so Javascript in the browser can
>      work with ActionScript in Gnash.
>    * Improved input device handling when using a raw framebuffer.
>
> Greetings,
> Miry
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2010-08/msg00129.html

Hi,

I take it that no one has any problems with me uploading latest gnash
to sid. I'll probably do that tomorrow and ask for an exception to the
freeze.

Thansk,
Miry

PS: Please CC me, I'm not in the debian-release mailing list



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