Amarok 1.4.10 patches

[Ian Monroe]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I dunno we're not really doing another 1.4 tarball so QC is up to the distros.

Ian