Re: Ardour still not present in testing
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:12 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > About libsndfile, how about the Debian libsndfile source package is
> > modified so that it produces a normal libsndfile library and a
> > libsndfile-ardour for ardour to build against.
>
> Or how about the libsndfile1 Debian package maintainer, Anand Kumria, is
> asked to apply the Ardour team's patches so that the new, improved
> version of libsndfile gets some testing before the Lenny freeze? (I'm
> cc'ing Anand on this mail).
The one issue with that is rather important is that the patches slightly
change the semantics of libsndfile. I won't bore you with the details,
unless someone asks, but suffice it to say that it allows a program
using libsndfile to do something that used to return an error code.
> I believe the problem is that Debian packages of Ardour end up in
> Debian-derived distributions, most of which are used by people who
> aren't DD's and don't use bugs.debian.org. These users are likely to
> assume any problems they encounter are in the Ardour source, rather than
> a result of the build or packaging process. Therefore they take their
> bug reports upstream to the Ardour or distro forums, if they bother to
> report the problem at all.
This is precisely correct.
--p
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