audacity package review

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2017-11-08 10:15 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am now quite happy with state of Audacity package, but there are still
> couple of things on which I would like to hear some opinions.
>
> 1) Audacity builds now only against modified in-tree portaudio ... I
> discussed that on audacity list and it should be fixed in future.
> Is that stopper for uploading audacity?
>
> 2) Similar story with sbsms ... difference is that this changes in in-tree
> sbsms has been made by original upstream author of sbsms,
> but for some reason never released new sbsms.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873541
> Is this stopper for uploading?
> Maybe we can ask later audacity devs to maintain sbsms in separate repo
> and encourage sbsms maintainer to switch to this source.
>
> 3) Audacity has a lot of bugs filled (69)... most of them are upstream
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=audacity
> Is there some reason able way how to deal with upstream bugs?
> I believe that big number of them is fixed after two releases.
>
> Maybe we could also encourage users to use Audacity bug tracker rather.
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs
>
> Maybe this can be done by debian/bug-presubj file similar like
> git-buildpackage package does it. (Assuming that most people using
> Reportbug tool)
> https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git-buildpackage/tree/debian/bug-presubj?id=
> d656cbd066fdc39aa74c1e4a8e13d31f25c15f2c
>

​ping ;)

Somebody for reviewing Audacity? ;) ... this package is shamefully outdated
:/

best regards

mira​
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