Bug#1086668: pulseaudio: New upstream release v17.0

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thanks for pointing out that webrtc-audio-processing is also team 
maintained, I will start reviewing those updates then. Did you work 
based on the packaging vcs and if so could you propose merge requests 
for your changes?

Cheers,
Sébastien Bacher

Le 10/12/2024 à 23:44, Alper Nebi Yasak a écrit :
> Hi Sebastien,
>
> On 2024-12-11 00:48 +03:00, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>> Hey Alper,
>>
>> I would be happy to help on the pulseaudio side since I've access to the
>> Vcs and did update for that package before but we need to unblock the
>> webrtc-audio-processing frsit. That package isn't team maintained and
>> the new version would require a rename of the binaries/transition so
>> that's not really something I feel confortable NMUing unless we get an
>> ack from the maintainer...
>>
>> Perhaps we could get pulseaudio 17 in experimental without the
>> webrtc-audio-processing option enabled as a first step?
> I already have a patch to build it with webrtc-audio-processing = 0.3 as
> that's in unstable, by using an older version of the single file that
> uses the library. I think that's enough to unblock things? Then I think,
> dropping the patch and updating a Build-Depends would be enough to allow
> pulseaudio to go through a potential webrtc-audio-processing transition.
>
> (FYI: I see "Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team" in
> webrtc-audio-processing d/control, and last non-NMU upload was in 2016.
> But it's OK if you still don't want to go forward with it.)
>
>
>> Le 09/12/2024 à 21:29, Alper Nebi Yasak a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:27:47 +0300 Alper Nebi Yasak
>>> <alpernebiyasak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Package: pulseaudio
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>> Tags: patch
>>>>
>>>> Hi PulseAudio Team,
>>>>
>>>> PulseAudio 17.0 was released 12 January 2024. A summary of changes from
>>>> the git tag description:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Please have a look at my attempt to package PA 17.0 [1], and upload if
>>>> you see fit. To test it would roughly be:
>>>>
>>>>     gbp clone https://salsa.debian.org/alpernebbi/pulseaudio
>>>>     cd pulseaudio
>>>>     git checkout version-17.0
>>>>     gbp dch --commit --release --new-version="17.0+dfsg1-1"
>>>>     gbp buildpackage
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/alpernebbi/pulseaudio/-/commits/version-17.0
>>> Ping on this. I have also prepared NMU-like uploads for pulseaudio,
>>> pavucontrol and webrtc-audio-processing and put them up on mentors.d.n.
>>> I have not asked on the mentors mailing list for sponsors for those yet.
>>>
>>> I would prefer it if someone from pulseaudio-team can upload them
>>> instead and update the git repos. Please review and consider uploading
>>> my new versions.
>>>
>>> (Or, perhaps, add me to the salsa team and give me DM permissions on
>>> these so I can do the uploads.)
>>>