Re: can somebody package libalfont ?

[Tobias Hansen <tobias.han@gmx.de>]

Am 02.07.2012 22:38, schrieb Paul Wise:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Also, how can we expect people to
>> use Allegro 5 when it is not in Debian?
> 
> They can build the unofficial source package or build from source
> manually. Having software in Debian isn't a prerequisite for people
> using it.

Sure, I just mean if we don't offer Allegro 5, we can't point fingers at
developers still using Allegro 4. (We shouldn't do that anyway.)

> 
> Since I'm (semi-inactive) upstream for alex4 I'll try to spend some
> time reviewing the Allegro 5 during DebConf12.
> 

Thanks. If it gets uploaded to unstable fast, I could still ask someone
from the release team for a freeze exception. They say they may be
generous with packages that are late for reasons outside of the control
of the maintainer.

Best regards,
Tobias