Bug#611791: libmms0: libmms alignment problems on ARM

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

>> libmms 0.6 has some alignment issues on ARM. This causes any
>> mms_connect() to fail on those platforms due to GUID compare mismatches.
>> See
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3137994&group_id=101989&atid=630607
>>
>> for the upstream bug report.
>> As this is fixed in later upstream releases, please update the libmms
>> package to version 0.6.1 or 0.6.2.
>
> libmms 0.6.2 is already prepared in our git repository, but is scheduled
> for post-squeeze.

Please excuse my lack of understanding, but given that only maintenance 
and bugfixing work seems to be done in upstream libmms, and given that 
the alignment bug makes it impossible to properly use libmms on ARM, why 
are the newer releases not considered for squeeze?

If updating libmms is not an option, could you consider backporting the 
alignment fix? 
(http://libmms.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libmms/libmms;a=commit;h=160a0c1c29b2be301a409856c4393dc9c1b88dd0)

Thanks,

Danny