Bug#749659: audacity + wxWidgets 3.0 — Proposing patch

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 10:12:37PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Justification was in the mail which updated the severity:
>
> # blocks the on-going wxwidgets3.0 transition
> severity 749659 serious
> thanks
>
> You can see that from the BTS if you click on the "Full text" link:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=30;bug=749659
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions says to use
> severity serious once the transition starts, which it officially
> did on 2014-05-27:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=24;bug=748169

Oh, that's the part I missed. Sorry.

>
>> This situation claims that audacity should be removed from testing
>> because of this issue. Is this really your intention?
>
> Very much so - the wxwidgets3.0 transition is close to complete and
> audacity is one of the stragglers:
>
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0.html
>
> In fact, it's the only one still in testing, which is only because it
> is on the list which autorm won't touch due to popcon score.
>
> Of those, grass has an somewhat bogus build dependency (it really
> wants to check the wxPython version, so should do that directly)
> and 5 more the maintainer has said to remove.  Of the remaining 8,
> most have a fix in progress.

Thanks for the status update. It seems that audacity is really one of
the remaining packages blocking this transition. This was not clear to
when reading the bug. This transition has been going on for a really
unhealthy amount of time.

>> 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?
>
> I suppose the release team have the final say, but my intention is that
> jessie will not ship with wxwidgets2.8.  It is a large and complex
> library, and now unmaintained upstream.  Even before 3.0 was released,
> 2.8 was neglected - the last release was 2011-03-28.  So by the time
> jessie releases, wx2.8 will be close to 4 years old.  By the EOL of
> jessie (assuming no LTS), it'll be close to 6 years old.
>
> And given (thanks to Martin's superlative efforts) we have a patch for
> audacity, why are we even having this discussion?

Well, I would appreciate a patch that is a) uptodate and b) complete
(what changes to the packaging are required to satisfy this
transition).

Can you maybe attach a debdiff, please?

(BTW, I wouldn't mind a NMU)

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard