[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#598275: Bug#598275: dvdisaster harms my system

[Carsten Gnoerlich]

Hi Rogério,

> Just as a side note, I have just released a package of 0.79.2 to the
> experimental distribution of Debian.
Yes; I noticed that. I will port the fix to the 0.79 branch soon.

> I don't know why, but I read what you wrote above as if the recommended
> version would be the 0.79 branch. Most proabably I got confused.
Well, it depends. 0.72 is the recommended stable branch which is only
getting bug fixes, but no further development. 0.79 is the place where 
development continues, currently in the area of RS03 and multithreading. 
It is similar to deciding between lenny and sid in Debian.

> [Debian patches] to the 0.79 branch. Perhaps you might want to
> incorporate some of those. Yes, there are some patches there that I told
> you about in an earlier e-mail, but there are some updated versions of
> others.
I will update 0.79.3 as possible.

> Do you have any idea (just an estimate, not a precise date) of when you
> may release 0.79.3? I want to keep tracking you closer with dvdisaster
> than I did in the past.
The outline: I decided for some internal design changes after
releasing 0.79.2, but did not anticipate the side effects properly.
So I am currently sitting on development sources which will
eventually have a superior design, but won't even compile
properly at this moment.

The plan:
- Just add the parallel SCSI fixes to the 0.79.2 sources and release
that as 0.79.3. ETA: Next weekend is unlikely, but I should be able
to do it by Nov 21th.
- The current development sources will become 0.79.4 and may be released
somewhere in spring 2011.
- After 0.79.4 I hope to be able to release more regularly again.

Cheers,
   Carsten

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