Please Backport Audacious

[rent0n]

On 21/06/11 16:03, Cyril LAVIER wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:34:39 +0200, Cyril Lavier wrote:
>> On 06/19/2011 05:44 PM, Cyril Lavier wrote:
>>> On 06/19/2011 04:14 PM, rent0n wrote:
>>>> On 16/06/11 17:47, Cyril Lavier wrote:
>>>>> On 06/16/2011 05:47 PM, rent0n wrote:
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would anybody be interested in backporting 'audacious' and
>>>>>> 'audacious-plugins' from testing to Squeeze?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think Audacious needs any presentation, being one of the most
>>>>>> used and loved music players.
>>>>>> The testing version (2.4,4) brings some very nice improvements and
>>>>>> new
>>>>>> features over 2.3. Plus, it also fix some very annoying bugs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Volunteers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> For this purpose, I've added the Debian Multimedia Maintainers list,
>>>>> maybe somebody will be available to fulfill your request.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, there is a 2.5.1 released mid may, and an alpha released few
>>>>> days
>>>>> ago. Maybe it will make more sense to wait until the 2.5.1 is uploaded
>>>>> to testing to think about a backport. I also think the packaging
>>>>> team is
>>>>> focused on including the 3.0 release in testing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for cc'ing the Debian Multimedia Maintainers list, I guess
>>>> there might be some folks interested in backporting Audacious there.
>>>>
>>>> I see your point, waiting for 2.5 could make sense, but in my view
>>>> 2.4 is already a big improvement over 2.3 and has the advantage of
>>>> being already in testing, ready to be backported.
>>>>
>>>> So, if anyone's interested, please raise your hand, having 2.4 in
>>>> Squeeze would be great!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> If there is nobody from the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team which
>>> is interested. I may fill the void, and try to do some work on the
>>> backport.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Here a first version, it works (I've tested it).
>>
>> There's a lot of things to backport, so in the next days, I will try
>> to change audacious and audacious-plugins build dependencies to avoid
>> backporting so many packages. It also needs the libvpx backport which
>> I made for chromium.
>>
>> http://www.davromaniak.eu/vrac/backports/audacious/
>>
>> If anybody can test it or review it.
>>
>> For testing it, you can use my repository :
>> http://ddb.davromaniak.eu/ (deb http://ddb.davromaniak.eu/
>> squeeze-backports main).
>>
>> Thanks.
> Hi again.
>
> Today, I worked on cleaning these packages.
>
> And apparently, I don't need to recompile barely the whole world to
> backport audacious.
>
> We just need the libmowgli, audacious and audacious-plugins packages.
>
> I changed the versions needed for build dependencies on the
> audacious-plugins package, and I didn't see any problems during
> compilation and when testing the software.
>
> So I've updated the folder :
> http://www.davromaniak.eu/vrac/backports/audacious/
>
> Thanks.

Hello Cyril,

I've been testing your package for a while and it works beautifully!
I haven't found a single issue so far, so I think it can be moved to the 
main backports repository.

Thank you very much for your work!

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rent0n