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Re: Please let gnash 0.8.4 into Lenny



Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 2008/11/11 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>:
> 
>> Please explain why releasing 0.8.3 would be a mistake and why 0.8.4
>> solves that? It's just impossible to review such a big diff that
>> targeted fixes are preferred in general...
> 
> I know the diff is quite big, the current release cycle for Gnash is 6
> months and there is a lot of work among different versions, as there
> are many people are working on it.
> 
>> It sounds a bit strange that you won't accept responsability while you
>> didn't explain why 0.8.3 is not worth releasing.
>>
>> I can assure you that nothing is lost already and that I try to be
>> reasonable.
> 
> This is the list of improvements since 0.8.3:
> 
>     * Keep Adobe happy with our users and our users happy with us by
>       changing "Flash player" into "SWF player" everywhere.  Adobe
>       claims "Flash" as a trademark and had asked a Linux distributor
>       to fix it.
>     * The popular SWF Twitter badge now renders correctly.
>     * Fix parsing of urls containing multiple question marks
>     * Fix support for movies embedding multiple sound streams
>     * Support for loading PNG and GIF images added.
>     * Improved rendering of SWF movies because of the less visible
>       changes listed below.
>     * Support for writing RGB/RGBA PNG images and JPEG images.
>     * Works with Potlatch OpenStreetMap editor
>     * New 'flvdumper' utility for analyzing FLV video files.
>     * XPI packaging support for Mozilla & Firefox.
> 
> Gnash is much more stable now, regressions in video playback in 0.8.3
> have been fixed, and Youtube now works fine.
> 
> "It'll hurt more to ship Gnash 0.8.3 with 8.2.0 than Gnash 0.8.4 RC1" [3]
> 
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash/2008-10/msg00002.html
> [2] http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/www/gnash-0.8.4.tar.gz:a/gnash-0.8.4/NEWS
> [3] http://n2.nabble.com/Fwd:-ship-Gnash-0.8.4-RC1-in-OLPC-8.2.0--td1322121.html
> 
> On the other side, as there are no reverse dependencies on Gnash (at
> least that I'm aware of), no other packages would be affected by the
> change.

unblocked, set age-days to 20.

Cheers

Luk


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