Call for help with fixing Xiph packages in Debian

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Martin Steghöfer]
> Hi Petter!

Hi.  Very glad to get some reply to my email. :)

> I'll try to help. Let's see, if there is anyone else alive in this
> packaging group! It would be great to have more help... :-)

Absolutely.  But I suspect this list is so filled with spam that
no-one is reading it any more.  I've asked the alioth admins to give
me control over the mailing list, as the current maintainer, johnf at
debian.org, is not replying to email any more.  I will block
non-subscribers from posting unmoderated to the list when I get acces.

> One important task is to update libvorbis to the recent upstream
> version. I've imported the old bzr repo into a new git repo,
> imported all the NMUs into it and I'm looking into packaging
> libvorbis 1.3.4.

Yes.  And the question is how brave should we be, 15 days before the
archive freeze?  Should we update to new upstream versions in
unstable, or only in experimental until after the freeze?  I suspect
that need to be decided after evaluating the changes in every package.
Adding new code to unstable this late run the risk of breaking other
programs and no-one noticing until it is too late to fix it.  I guess
that risk need to be compared to the believed advantage of upgrading.
Having recent packages make it easier to share any future security
fixes with the rest of the world, and get security fixes from the rest
of the world.

What is your view on this?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen