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

[Benjamin Drung]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.01.2014, 14:59 -0500 schrieb RJ Ryan:
> Hi there Debian maintainers of portaudio19-dev,
> 
> 
> PortAudio is in the process of vetting a release candidate and their
> goal is to update their package before the Ubuntu 14.04 debian import
> freeze.
> 
> 
> http://portaudio.com/download.html (see the 2014-01-14 RC)
> 
> 
> This will be the first stable release in 3 years and includes a ton of
> bug fixes that affect projects like Mixxx with high profile (for us)
> bugs like this:
> 
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/900364
> 
> 
> 
> 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. 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>).

> I got all of your emails from the maintainers list on this page:
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/portaudio19-dev
> 
> Please let me know if there is a better place to check.

Better would be the maintainers list of the version in unstable instead
of wheezy. ;) You could also look at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/portaudio19.html
Or you could look at the Debian changelog file for the last uploaders.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer