Fairly good package status for pkg-xiph-maint

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Martin Steghöfer]
> I did read the email and followed your recent work on the Xiph packages 
> a little, but unfortunately I can't invest much time myself right now, 
> I'm sorry.

Oh, sad to hear that, but I understand how it is.  I do not have time to
spend on the Xiph packages either, as there are other projects with
higher priority at the moment.

> Am I interpreting the freeze deadline right in that the most relevant 
> freezes are the Soft Freeze and the Full Freeze, and that therefore we 
> have approximately the rest of 2016 to get the packages into an 
> appropriate shape for the Stretch release?

Kind of, but not quite.  Those deadlines are mostly relevant for "leaf"
packages without dependencies.  As the xiph packages are mostly
libraries that can affect other packages, we should avoid changing them
close to the deadline in case they break other packages which then will
fail to get a fix in place before it is too late.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen