Hardy Backports

Please backport Swfdec 0.8.2 from Jaunty to Intrepid & Hardy

Bug #309568 reported by Mackenzie Morgan
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Bug Description

Swfdec 0.8.2 fixes a lot of memory issues (leaks, crashes) that are found in 0.8.0 (the version currently found in Intrepid).

As compared to the version in Hardy (0.6.4), it adds support for PulseAudio, kind of a necessity since Hardy uses PulseAudio. I have personally backported 0.8.2 in pbuilder for my Hardy amd64 system, and I can confirm that it works very well.

See: release notes for 0.8.2: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/2008-October/002081.html

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)
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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We need to backport the swfdec source package and the swfdec-mozilla source package. Both build fine and work fine here, on an Intrepid system. swfdec-gnome which is the only other application to depend on swfdec still works fine.

Packages are available in my PPA if someone wants to give them a try : https://launchpad.net/~jerome-guelfucci/+archive

Changed in intrepid-backports:
status: New → Confirmed
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Musicien77 (musicien77) wrote :

For Hardy (LTS) users, backporting 0.8.x is also very important, because it supports new video format, for example used in Youtube : 0.6.x no longer works for new videos. Thanks in advance for Hardy backport.

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pinzia (pinzia) wrote :

Intrepid is EOF, i mark this report invalid for that version

Changed in hardy-backports:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in intrepid-backports:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Evan Broder (broder) wrote :

It looks like this bug requests a backport from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). However, as Jaunty is no longer supported, such a backport is no longer possible.

This bug is being set to "Won't Fix". If you would still like to move forward with this backport request, please re-open the bug and adjust it to request a backport from a current release.

(This change is being made by an automated bot run by Evan Broder, who is now subscribed to the bug; if you think the change was made in error, please feel free to re-open the bug)

Changed in hardy-backports:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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