Maia Kozheva <si...@ubuntu.com> writes: > 20.04.2009 20:48, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> How about modifying gtkpod to load libmp4v2 at runtime instead of at >> load-time? This would allow the "normal" gtkpod package to be compiled >> without libmp4v2 and use it if it happens to be installed. >> > Response from gtkpod upstream: > >> I like the idea of dynamically detecting libmp4v2. Patches welcome. > > I'll try to write a patch this week and commit it to upstream SVN first, then > backport to Ubuntu.
Excellent, thanks for your work! > No idea if the patch would be picked up by Debian (after all, there is > no libmp4v2 in the Debian archive), so we would probably be doomed to > carry the divergence until the next upstream release. I don't see why not. Debian more or less just recently started a new release cycle, so they would integrate that patch on the next upstream release at latest. Probably even earlier as here the problem is even more pressing. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
