Bug#454241: audacity: Needs --with-portaudio=v19 --without-portmixer

[Mark Whitis <whitis@freelabs.com>]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.2.4b-2.1
Severity: normal


Audacity as packaged does not work well with ALSA.  You can run
audacity with "aoss audacity" but you may find, as I did, that certain
Audio I/O settings such as "Play other tracks while recording new one"
or "software playthrough" that use the sound card in full duplex excite
the bugs in OSS emulation or that you can't use the full range of alsa 
devices when you have multiple audio devices connected (for example, a USB headset as well as motherboard sound).

Using ALSA natively requires compiling with 
   --with-portaudio=v19 --without-portmixer
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux_Issues

You may want to make two versions:
  /usr/bin/audacity-oss
  /usr/bin/audacity-alsa
  /usr/bin/audacity symlink to one of the above via /etc/alternatives
They could be part of the same package.

It is inappropriate to make the user recompile audacity in order to use the
better of the two sound systems.
>From the audacity team wiki: 
"If you use audacity 1.3.2 or newer you are strongly recommended to compile
using portaudio-v19 so you have native ALSA support, and use that in 
preference to the OSS option."

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libflac++5                  1.1.2-6      Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac7                    1.1.2-5      Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.2.1-5    GCC support library
ii  libid3tag0                  0.15.1b-10   ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libmad0                     0.15.1b-2.1  MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0                     1.1.3-2      Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsndfile1                 1.0.16-1     Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++6                  4.2.1-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a                 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2               1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3              1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxgtk2.4-1               2.4.5.1.1    wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI t

audacity recommends no packages.

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