Bug#690563: libopus missing SET_GAIN API

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Ron <ron at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Reinhard,
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:46:34PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Package: opus
>> Version: http://git.xiph.org/?p=opus.git;a=commitdiff;h=28b41ae5ae1acf6eb222858567952564838d48f5
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to upload a newer copy of libopus that enables users to
>                                          ^^^^^^^
> I suspect you meant to type something else there ;)
> I'm guessing libav (but I am curious to know exactly what).

Oh, yes, I'm sorry, I was talking about libav version 9beta1.

>
>> encode/decode media via libopus. Unfortunately, the current
>> implementation of the wrapper uses the SET_GAIN API, which is
>> currently not present in the debian package. It has been introduced by
>> this upstream commit:
>>
>> http://git.xiph.org/?p=opus.git;a=commitdiff;h=28b41ae5ae1acf6eb222858567952564838d48f5
>>
>> I would appreciate if you could provide an updated snapshot (or
>> backport this API) to experimental at your earliest convenience. Until
>> this happens, I have to disable the libopus functionality completely
>> to unbreak the package build. Thanks for your understanding.
>
> Pushing a newer version to experimental is on my short list.  Mostly it
> has just been a question of which version would be best to push there,
> and when, but if you have a real need in the pipeline then that adds some
> concrete to making that decision.
>
> I'll check on the timeline for the next tag to go down (which should be
> soon), but if that looks like being a while away still then I'll push
> 1.0.1 to experimental to unblock you on this in the meantime.

Thanks for this, much appreciated!

Cheers,
Reinhard


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regards,
    Reinhard