Re: Backports for fglrx and chromium-browser (and two dependencies)
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:51:56 +0200 Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Giuseppe Iuculano schrieb am Sunday, den 19. June 2011:
>
> > On 06/19/2011 03:30 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > I've prepared squeeze backports for fglrx and chromium-browser (and
> > > gyp and libv8 dependencies). Would anyone be so kind as to review and
> > > upload if these look good?
> >
> >
> > * allow squeeze's libvpx0 0.9.1 to satisfy dependencies (spot-checked
> > some webm videos and they seem to work just fine with this older version).
> >
> >
> > Don't do this, please. chromium 11 needs libvpx0 >= 0.9.6, see #618621
All of the links in that bug report seem to work ok. I wonder if
that was just some backwards compatibility lost in version 10's
development and fixed later.
> for a complex beast like chromium I would prefer to have either the original
> maintainer or a really experienced debian developer as maintainer of the
> backport.
>
> Probably we would reject the package if we are not sure if the
> uploader/maintainer isn't able to handle it.
Personally, I see no problem handling this. It will just be a matter
of keeping up with the numerous updates that fix lots of security issues.
Perhaps Guisseppe can volunteer to mentor/watch my work. He's seen my
work elsewhere, so maybe he will vouch for me. I've also been on the the chromium packaging team for a while now (following bugs/commits). I just
haven't had time to work on any of its bugs to get myself in the uploaders
field yet.
Best wishes,
Mike
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