Bug#423476: Internal portaudio v19 libraries crash against JACK on AMD64

[Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>]

Hi,

|--==> Joost Yervante Damad writes:

  JYD> On Saturday 12 May 2007 07:49:14 Emmet Hikory wrote:
  >>Package: audacity
  >>Version: 1.3.2-2
  >>Tags: patch
  >>Severity: wishlist
  >>
  >>The JACK interface of the internal portaudio libraries used by
  >>audacity do not have proper memory bounds checking for 64-bit
  >>architectures (see bug 406754 for discussion).  The decision taken by
  >>the portaudio maintainer appears to have been to disable JACK for
  >>architectures other than i386 and powerpc.  Please consider the
  >>attached patch as a similar workaround for the audacity package, until
  >>such time as this issue is fullly addressed.
  >>
  >>Thank you.

  JYD> Free, others,

  JYD> what is your opinion on this issue?

What are exactly the consequences of this bug? How badly does it
affect the usability of the program?

64 Studio has been shipping the current audacity 1.3.2 Debian package
for a while, and we got no bug report about that. Of course it might
be only lack of testing.

Ciao!

Free