audacity 1.3.7-1 ready

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Thu Feb 5 08:48:29 UTC 2009


Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> I'm currently building/uploading it to experimental.

I believe Benjamin wanted it targetted at unstable, but it should be 
alright nevertheless. Thank you.

> Btw, on a short code inspection I found out that in src/FFmpeg.cpp there
> is code that looks for ffmpeg libraries and dynamically loads them if
> they are available. That code seems rather inconsistent, it talks about
> libavformat, but loads and checks for symbols in libavcodec, maybe there
> is just some misunderstanding.

Oh, I didn't know the ffmpeg libraries are dlopened, I believed 
audacity is actually linked against them.

> Has someone checked if audacity works with libavcodec52? Or is that
> restricted to libavcodec51?

No, not checked yet. This was on my schedule post-Lenny.

> In any case, if that indeed works, I think we can add a Suggests to
> debian/control

If audacity really dlopens, I think we should at least recommend the 
ffmpeg libs. If if links against them, well, we'd have depends anyway.


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