> Remi, the PPA that was posted above worked until it was superseded by a
> security update.
As stated in an earlier comment, the patch in that package was just
wrong and nobody cared to correct that patch so far.
> It's disingenuous to say this would force the Gnome guys away from
> upstream when this is a small patch against a released version. The
> 9.10 branch is going to be limited to maintenance patches until it's
> end-of-lifed not too long from now.
please watch your tone against an very active vlc upstream contributor.
> It's an ugly workaround, but if Ubuntu can't tolerate the occasional
> ugly workaround for the sake of users, it's time to mark bug #1 as
> "WONTFIX".
ArbitraryConstant <email address hidden> writes:
> Remi, the PPA that was posted above worked until it was superseded by a
> security update.
As stated in an earlier comment, the patch in that package was just
wrong and nobody cared to correct that patch so far.
> It's disingenuous to say this would force the Gnome guys away from
> upstream when this is a small patch against a released version. The
> 9.10 branch is going to be limited to maintenance patches until it's
> end-of-lifed not too long from now.
please watch your tone against an very active vlc upstream contributor.
> It's an ugly workaround, but if Ubuntu can't tolerate the occasional
> ugly workaround for the sake of users, it's time to mark bug #1 as
> "WONTFIX".
cf. http:// www.ubuntu. com/community/ conduct
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