audacity 1.3.8 almost ready

Benjamin Drung benjamin.drung at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 15:24:35 UTC 2009


Am Freitag, den 17.07.2009, 17:16 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> Benjamin Drung schrieb:
> > I have update the audacity package for the new upstream release. There
> > is only one task left: The portaudio.patch needs a refresh. Can someone
> > do it?
> 
> Hm, it seems this has become non-trivial. However, are you sure it is 
> still really needed? From debian/changelog I read that it has been 
> added in order to be able to build against the system portaudio but 
> this has never been used...

When audacity were not compiled against portaudio, then we could drop
the patch.

> > I send this patch upstream a while ago and ask for their opinions, but I
> > got no responses. Maybe I have to send it again.
> 
> Please try to integrate this patch upstream again. AFAICT last time 
> you sent the patch to the mailing list it was in HTML format (or 
> similar) so chances are high that it just got ignored. I'd recommend 
> to put it in the package but keep it disabled (e.g. remove the .patch 
> suffix) until it has been reviewed upstream, but I don't have a strong 
> opinion about that.

Ok, I will send it upstream again and not integrate it into the Debian
package. If someone wants audacity with this patch, he/she can use my
PPA.

Cheers,
Benjamin
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