[Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:24:14PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote:
>Le Friday 18 July 2008 12:05:29 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
>> >Excellent! thank you very much. I'll test tomorrow with these. Any
>> >chance you can get them into backports.org? Your personal apt repo is
>> >fine for my personal use and for pre-debconf testing, but I think the
>> >debconf server admins want them in bpo if we are to use them for dc8.
>>
>> Sorry - won't do that extra work:
>>
>>    * Either a few helper tools needs to be backported (like I've done
>>      at http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/src ) or packages needs to be
>>      adjusted to use older versions of those helper tools (and tested
>>      that it does not cause regressions!)
>
>I can try to do it. If they are in your repo it should be straight forward.

Yes, they are all there.  Should be relatively straight forward to find 
them if you start browsing from http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/icecast/

I guess you could also use the following APT line, but frankly I haven't 
tested for some time if deb-src works properly on my site:

deb-src http://debian.jones.dk/ etch icecast


Only backports not part of the icecast pool is the build tools available 
from the src pool:

deb-src http://debian.jones.dk/ etch src

or both of them together:

deb-src http://debian.jones.dk/ etch src icecast



>>    * Backported icecast2 links against backportet libshout.  I believe
>>      bpo does not allow linking against anything but Etch libraries
>
>You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull with 
>the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated, and 
>cannot be simulated beforehand...

...which means you don't really know what you've got:  Imagine 
backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and 
then update the ffmpeg backport.  Is "binNMUs" then done automagically?

Yes, the problem is similar to main Debian (all packages are built 
against unstable, not rebuilt when entering testing), but bpo has less 
eyeballs, I suspect.

Oh - and I suspect my example with ffmpeg is a quite valid one:  Some 
cases of undefined img_convert occur at runtime (try install freej in 
Lenny and then update libav* to the ones from debian-multimedia.org ).



  - Jonas

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