[SCM] Audacity debian packaging branch, master, updated. upstream/1.3.6-9-gbdc3de1

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi,

|--==> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:14:12 +0100, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> said:

  RT> Hi.
  RT> What is the upstream status on this? after some quick research, it seems
  RT> that it has been originally developed by Kevin Kofler and is published
  RT> in the fedora bugtracker at
  RT> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450450

That's correct. It seems that the patch didn't get attention from
upstream (quote from the last entry in the link above):

"Unfortunately, upstream appears not to care at all, I have yet to receive a
reply from upstream. :-(

IMHO this is something definitely worth carrying a patch in Fedora, having
Audacity not work with the default sound system in Fedora is really bad! Also
keep in mind that our portaudio package is already carrying that patch."

I was contacted by David Henningsson, asking for the patch to be
applied in the Debian package, which I did in version 1.3.6-1. The
patch seems to work correctly. Here s the original message from David:

=====================================================================
Hello Emmet Hikory and Free Ekanayaka!

I'm writing to you since you are involved with Audacity packaging in
Debian/Ubuntu. Kevin Kofler has developed a patch that allows Audacity
to use non-mmap devices, such as Pulseaudio, as its backend. It fixes
Launchpad bug #178895, among others. I've tested this patch, adjusted it
slightly, and packaged it for Ubuntu 8.10. You are encouraged to test it
out, include it in the official Audacity package, and/or promote it
upstream.

My slightly altered patch is attached to this message (simply put the
file in the debian/patches directory).

Here's a link to my test package:
https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive

Here's a link to the patch post in Portaudio's mailing list:
http://techweb.rfa.org/pipermail/portaudio/2008-December/009023.html

Regards,
  David Henningsson
=====================================================================

  RT> However I fail to find the upstream discussion on that patch. Is that
  RT> patch being considered at all upstream?

  RT> it seems that also ubuntu is affected pretty badly about this patch.

Please would you elaborate? I'm not sure to get what you mean? Are
there bug reports related to this patch?

Ciao!

Free