On Friday 06 June 2008 3:34:01 am Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> writes: > > I've reuploaded the openal-soft packages and am looking for a sponsor. It > > adds a debug package. Also, this package is meant to go directly to sid > > now. - dget > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/openal-soft/openal-soft_1.3. > >253-1.dsc > > What is the status about openal? Basically, the old library (OpenAL SI from creative) is deprecated in favor of OpenAL Soft. Right now I'm currently waiting for someone to upload openal-soft to the archive. > I think if we want to have that one in > lenny, we should upload it RIGHT NOW to unstable, so that package > maintainers do have a chance to adapt their packages Yes it should be uploaded right away. I've notified the package maintainers of packages that depend|build-depend on openal a month ago. I've yet to receive any response. > From the archives, > I've seen that you have done quite extensive research about the breakage > it will cause, but I think this is more than managable. > > As for the package, I noticed that my name is in Uploaders: > Field. Please talk to the people before you put their name in their, > because that effectively makes them co-maintainers and in some sort > responsible for the package. I've added the names of those who were already in the openal package. > I'm currently strongly considering to upload the package to ubuntu > intrepid right now, since we have just started a new release > cycle. However, think we should do that in debian as well. > > Please note that I don't see myself in a position to fix all breakages > this will cause. I know that this action will annoy package maintainers > using openal. Sill, I think doing that right now would be better for > lenny. > > Does anyone of the games team object here? If you care, please do have a > look at the source package. On the first look, it looks rather okay. It > is managed in git with quilt, but without history. Also, I'm not > familiar with pristine-tar, so I cannot comment if it matches the debian > games team policy of managing packages in git. -- Regards, Andres
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