Re: Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> It's perhaps a rather obvious conclusion that I think everyone agrees on
> so hasn't been discussed extensively. My reasons are:
> Other mumble clients (the servers aren't relevant, as discussed) support
> celt 0.7.1 as a baseline so in practice that's what they'll end up using
> until opus is deployed. There may be minor improvements in newer
> versions of celt, or compatibility improvements with very old clients by
> supporting older versions of celt, but these are very marginal benefits.
> The downsides of supporting multiple versions of celt are pretty
> obvious: security bugs need backporting to n versions of celt rather
> than just one. And the user of such a client risks being exposed to
> security bugs which exist only in other celt versions which few other
> people are using and no-one is looking at.
> I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong :-).
Oh, okay, I see. I wanted not to tie the hands of the maintainers if
there was some reason to support some other version of celt, but all the
above also seems reasonable, and at this point in the freeze it makes the
most sense to introduce the minimum changes anyway.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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