On Saturday 07 June 2008 8:06:04 am Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > Still, you didn't communicate this with debian-release, which I'm doing > now with this email. > > Release Team: We really want to replace the current openal package with > openal-soft. I just uploaded the package to experimental, in order to > get it through NEW. Please read #473128 for an analysis with the > replacement. > > Executive summary: the new package is basically an soname bump, all > reverse depends need to be rebuilt. This has been tested, only one > package is problematic: boson. We expect that this issue can be handled > befor the lenny release. > > I know that currently 2 transitions are ongoing: ffmpeg and > poppler. openal should not interfere, but I wanted to get the green > light before starting a third one. Thanks for uploading. I'll get openal-soft-1.4.272 ready for upload to experimental too. -- Regards, Andres
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