OpenAL adoption

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:13:08PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > Ah, I just worked on the package, fixing all open bugs against it. I
> > already renamed the bug to ITA.
> 
>  Oh, great! I hope you came up with a sensible solution for fixing
> #345964 and are willing to teach upstream of the library about libtool?
> This is the most severe problem with the library, really annoying and
> will keep it out of the release if not addressed properly, left aside
> future problems with future updates, too.

Oh, you are right, I didn't notice this bug yet. 

Hm, I'm not an experienced library maintainer either, but I'm willing to
learn about it. According to the ChangeLog, upstream intends to switch
to libtool anyway. So this problem will be probably adressed with the
next upstream version.

Do you think it makes sense to upload openal as is in svn in the current
state, and leave the RC bug open, or shall we upgrade to the latest
upstream 'release' (actually a newer svn snapshot packaged as tarball),
and address #352950 at once?

>  I don't think that I'm good to co-maintain it, but I really want the
> library in a good shape because qcake will depend on it, and hunting
> after every openal change that might occur without any sane handling of
> the library is just a horror.

Well, another reason why group maintenance in pkg-games makes sense, no?
;)

Gruesse,
	Reinhard