Bug#677252: would you accept a backported patch for musicbrainz5 in kdemultimedia, for wheezy?Hi Jon!
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 08:47:19PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> kdemultimedia creates lots of binaries [0]. Do you know exactly which of them
> use the old mb?
Yes, it's libkcddb4 and kscd.
> Please **note** that I'm mostly speaking **for myself**: *if* the patches are
> accepted upstream and we manage to get them before the freeze (we uploaded
> kdemultimedia a few days ago, so we will wait for it to enter unstable), I
> don't think there will be much problem in applying them.
I don't think upstream are likely to accept these patches. My understanding is
that the version we're talking about is considered stable by upstream and so
they won't accept further changes. Their focus is on the next release (which
has moved away from the monolithic packaging). However I am not very familiar
with KDE upstream, and perhaps they would consider the patches after all. The
turn-around to get them accepted upstream would rule this out for wheezy,
though.
The patches themselves, when I write them, are backports from the git
repositories for kcddb and kscd. The reworking I need to do is mostly fixing
the paths to files in the diffs (since they've moved about). Most of the changes
are simple substitutions (mb4_* to mb5_*, etc.).
4:4.8.4-1 is now in unstable. I will most likely work on the patch on Tuesday.
There are presently three packages relying on mb3 still: kdemultimedia, goobox
and gnome-mplayer. The goobox patch is written, I just need to convince the
maintainer. Gnome-mplayer is yet to be patched so I'll be working on that on
Tuesday too. There's a slim chance we can get the migration to musicbrainz5
done in time for wheezy.
Thanks!
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