Bug#749659: audacity + wxWidgets 3.0 — Proposing patch

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: tag -1 -patch
Control: severity -1 normal

Hi,

I wonder what's the status of this bug. The most recent email did not
help to clarify, so I test-compiled wx3.0.patch as proposed in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749659#35, and can
confirm that the package builds fine. However, I noticed this in
configure.log:

checking for wx-config... /usr/bin/wx-config
configure: Checking that the chosen version of wxWidgets is 2.8.x or
3.0.x
Great, you're using wxWidgets 2.8.12!


I guess that is because the build dependencies needs updating. So I
guess given that the proposed patch to the package is incomplete at
best, I've removed the "patch" tag, as clearly more clarification is
needed.

Olly, I noticed that you raised the severity of this bug to "Serious"
without further explanation. Can you please elaborate here? This
situation claims that audacity should be removed from testing because
of this issue. Is this really your intention?

The wxwidgets transition tracking bug seems to be
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748169. Given that
the transition did not start before the September 5, I think it is
fair to assume that this transition is not going to happen for
Debian/jessie, and that it is also appropriate to downgrade the
severity of this bug.

Please correct me and clarify if I got something wrong, but AFAIUI,
there are no reason for pressing on this bug because jessie will ship
with wxWidgets 2.8.  Martin, may I recommend you getting in touch with
upstream about this patch?

Best,
Reinhard