Bug#781866: audacity: Audacity for Jessie builds with wxWidgets 3.0.2, which is not fully compatible with 2.8.x code

[Antonio Ospite]

Package: audacity
Version: 2.0.6-2
Followup-For: Bug #781866

Dear Maintainer,

any news on this issue?

Dave, a workaround for the device selection boxes is to reset the
toolbars from the menus: View -> Toolbars -> Reset toolbars

But this has to be done after each launch, and the result is not perfect
either.

I see that the debian package has several patches regarding wxWidgets3:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/audacity.git/tree/debian/patches
is upstream aware of them, and endorse them? Or should the package
really just depend on libwxbase2.8-0 and libwxgtk2.8-0?

This is the upstream bug about the issue:
http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902

Apparently there might be also some crashes with wx3:
http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=wx3&resolution=---

Just my 2c.

Ciao,
   Antonio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data     2.0.6-2
ii  libasound2        1.0.28-1
ii  libavcodec56      6:11.3-1
ii  libavformat56     6:11.3-1
ii  libavutil54       6:11.3-1
ii  libc6             2.19-18
ii  libexpat1         2.1.0-6+b3
ii  libflac++6        1.3.0-3
ii  libflac8          1.3.0-3
ii  libgcc1           1:4.9.2-10
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.42.1-1
ii  libid3tag0        0.15.1b-11
ii  libmad0           0.15.1b-8
ii  libmp3lame0       3.99.5+repack1-7
ii  libogg0           1.3.2-1
ii  libportaudio2     19+svn20140130-1
ii  libportsmf0       0.1~svn20101010-4
ii  libsbsms10        2.0.2-1
ii  libsndfile1       1.0.25-9.1
ii  libsoundtouch0    1.8.0-1
ii  libsoxr0          0.1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6        4.9.2-10
ii  libtwolame0       0.3.13-1.1
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3  2.5+repack0-2
ii  libvorbis0a       1.3.4-2
ii  libvorbisenc2     1.3.4-2
ii  libvorbisfile3    1.3.4-2
ii  libwxbase3.0-0    3.0.2-1+b1
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0     3.0.2-1+b1

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
ii  caps [ladspa-plugin]         0.9.24-1
ii  tap-plugins [ladspa-plugin]  0.7.3-1

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Antonio Ospite
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