hi,
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:47:26PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Why so that breakages in the FLAC API can break libsndfile again?
well, sometimes api changes are necessary.. wether this one was or not - i
cant judge - ask the authors of libflac.
> > Ive been in the same situation with streamripper.
>
> Thats streamripper this is libsndfile.
>
> You are the maintainer of streamripper but not as far as I am
> aware the maintainer of libsndfile. I think that is Anand
> Kumria and I do not believe that Anand has any problems with the
> way I have been releasing libsndfile so far and I know him well
> enough that he would say something if I screwed up.
well, its just that statically linked binaries in debian should be omitted by
policy (or, might be non policy compliant). Imagine a security bug in libflac,
debian's security team would have to care about the libflac packages AND
sndfile - duplicate work again.
bye,
- michael
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