Hi, On Thursday 13 March 2008 23:06, Alf Tonny Bätz wrote: > This is a request to move flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound from > etch-test to etch so people can take take it in use without doing some > dangerous changing in the sources.list. I have test that packages on 3 > server, and it works for us like a charm. I dont feel comfortable doing so at the moment, even though it is reported to work fine on Alfs and Bjarnes machines :-( The main reason is that I'm uneasy that this package wasnt accepted in Debian yet (and moving the package to our Etch would mean introducing a package which wasnt there before - which IMO shouldnt be done lightly in a stable release). It's been sitting in NEW since two months, together with flashplayer-nonfree-pulse. And thus I'm not sure there will be an upgrade path in Lenny. Also the README shipped in the binary package in /usr/share/doc claims it supports pulseaudio while it does not (as stated correctly by the package description). Then there is some cruft in the source packages (old/beta? and Patches/Done). Last, I cannot even find a request from the maintainer that this package should be moved to etch, "only" from our users. I assume the maintainers is in favor of this :) but as there is no request, it means I would have to write the announcement myself, which is a lot work for me and can better be done by the maintainer :-D Summary: introducing new packages in a stable release should be done with great care, and I dont feel that this package has seen enough love yet. regards, Holger
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