Comment 14 for bug 37379
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| Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote Re: [Dapper] Request for Upstream Version Freeze exception to proposed merge of Debian Sid's wxwidgets 2.6.3.2.1 | #14 |
[Resetting bug report status for UVF exception request]
Dapper's current wxwidgets2.6 source exhibits several classes of bugs including, but not limited to, socket and locale errors. Users of amule and vlc have been bitten by these bugs. In spite of the rather invasive wxwidgets2.6 source changes when migrating to a proposed merge of Debian Sid's current 2.6.3.2.1, I am comfortable requesting this change due to the more stringent restrictions applied by the Debian maintainer, who has often passed over upstream versions in favor of waiting to generate a stable candidate for Debian. In light of Dapper being supported for at least 18 months, using a more stable wxwidgets2.6 is highly preferable to using our current one.
Accepting this merge request would also close bug #34853 (no contrib examples included).
I have tested this proposed merge with current vlc (both by simply installing the newer libwx*2.6* over the repo's current versions and by recompiling vlc against the newer libwx*2.6*-dev), and no regressions have been spotted.
Attached to this bug report (retitled from the original request for 2.6.3) are bzip2ed debdiff, diffstat, and pbuilder log.