Re: [PATCH] enable libao support in speech-dispatcher for debian squeeze

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

Halim Sahin <halim.sahin@freenet.de> writes:

> Hi,
> On Mo, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:20:12 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>> Is there a bug opened for this? It's the best way to ask to the
>> maintainer directly and allow us to do if he doesn't (except if he
>> doesn't do because he doesn't want for some reasons he probably would
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597964
> The maintainer wrote that the bug in the package was fixed in a new
> speechd package.
> The package released with squeeze was not fixed at that time :-(.

You submitted #597964 with severity normal.  Are you seriously implying
that normal bugs should warrant stable fixes?  I am sorry, this is not
the way it works at all.  You can't expect the maintainer to do anything
other then a normal upload to sid + the usual migration to testing if
you claim the bug you submitted has a normal severity.

Stable updates are usually security fixes only, thats just the way it
works.
Enabling features that were previously not enabled is usually really out
of scope for stable updates.  A backports upload might work, but you
should really talk to the speech-dispatcher maintainer about this.  Just
grabbing someone else's package and pushing it to backports without him
consenting feels kind of impolite to me.

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