Amarok 1.4.10 patches

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv> wrote:
>> On 2009.01.30. 20:36, Ian Monroe wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Carsten Lohrke <carlo at gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> I've noticed that a few patches we have applied seemingly never made it
>>>> upstream. The libmtp patch is a bit ugly, since the build script isn't
>>>> modified accordingly and the build requires libmtp 0.3.x instead working with
>>>> 0.2.x as well, but I don't have interest to redo someone elses patch.
>>>
>>> You mean it requires 0.3, but the configure script still only requires
>>> 0.2? Sounds fine to me. ;)
>>>
>>>> Please
>>>> apply as you like.
>>>
>>> Well we're not going to release another Amarok 1.4, so as far as I'm
>>> concerned the distros can commit stuff to it as they want to help each
>>> other out.
>>
>> what about evaluating and applying patches to svn branch (still without
>> doing a release) ?
>> that would at least unify distro versions a bit
>
> My point was that I'm OK with distros committing stuff themselves,
> since we're not really maintaining it anymore, they are. I'm not sure
> if other devs agree with me or not though.

Committing to the SVN branch is theoretically fine I think, but what
about quality control? We can't provide that, and neither do we want
to risk people committing regressions. That's the only problem I see.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org