New PortAudio release coming, update in time for Debian import freeze in Ubuntu?

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Dienstag, den 04.02.2014, 19:30 +0000 schrieb Russell Ryan:
> On Wed Jan 15 2014 at 5:36:56 PM, RJ Ryan <rryan at mixxx.org> wrote:
>         On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Benjamin Drung
>         <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
>         
>                 Am Mittwoch, den 15.01.2014, 14:59 -0500 schrieb RJ
>                 Ryan:
>                 >
>                 
>                 > I'm just writing to get on your radar -- would any
>                 of you have spare
>                 > cycles for updating the portaudio debian package
>                 once their new stable
>                 > version is released (should be very soon now)? I
>                 definitely have a
>                 > huge bias in trying to make this happen so that this
>                 and other PA bugs
>                 > can be fixed for our users on Debian and Ubuntu :).
>                 
>                 
>                 Okay, I just updated the package in Debian unstable to
>                 the new release.
>                 It will be automatically synced to Ubuntu trusty. 
>         
>         
>         Thank you! I think the only caveat is that this is an RC and
>         might not be the final stable release. They are actively
>         discussing this on their mailing list. There haven't been any
>         reports of issues yet. However, PortAudio in general keeps
>         their trunk stable at all times. Most people outside of the
>         GNU/Linux world just release from the tip of their trunk
>         instead of their stable version.
>         
>          
>                 BTW, how will the
>                 stable released be called? Just version 19 without the
>                 date? Version 19
>                 plus the date (just declare as stable)? We currently
>                 use 19+svn<date> as
>                 upstream version (which is higher than 19 and 19
>                 +<date>).
>         
>         
>         As for release numbers, Ross (CC'd) could comment on that. The
>         new release probably won't be a new major release so keeping
>         with the v19+svn<date> may be the best option.
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Ross has posted the final stable snapshot: 2014-01-30:
> http://portaudio.com/download.html

Hi,

I finally found the time to update the Debian package.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer