Update to Speex

[Mark Purcell]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> I guess I should point out that 1.2beta1 is more stable than 1.1.12
> because 1.1.x was an "unstable branch" (just like odd releases for the
> kernel used to be). The only difference is that the 1.1.x/1.2beta branch
> has long been much superior to the last "stable release" (1.0.5).

Well do you refer to 1.2beta on your downloads page as 'unstable'
http://www.speex.org/downloads/

libspeex is one of most popular packages being installed on some 75% of 
debian machines http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=speex

We thus have to take a fairly conservative approach to updates because if
we get something wrong it will effect a lot of people.

> Seriously, there's no point in keeping 1.1.12 in stable because it's
> just an older unstable release. Consider 1.2beta2 as 1.1.14 (that's
> actually how it's identified internally). 

I don't disagree, and have done some testing here.  But if 1.2beta is
solid, then you as upstream could always release this without the beta tag.
There is a mental advantage in not having a beta tag, unless that is really
what it is..

> Hope this clarifies things. Any questions?

What are the forward release plans for 1.2?

As you say it has been a long time since 1.0.5 and speex is now very
widely deployed across all distributions.

It would be good if you could release an baseline freeze with the 
libspeex and then move onto the more unstable elements of
libspeexdsp.

Thanks,
Mark
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