Bug#592515: future unblock: nama/1.064-1 (or -2)

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 05:13:44AM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> On  0, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I see two possible solutions to include the RC bug fix in Squeeze:
> > a) Allow both nama/1.064-1 and the (new) libaudio-ecasound-perl to
> > migrate to testing.  However I guess the release team is not happy about
> > including new packages at this point.
> > b) Preparing a -2 revision of nama that drops the new Recommends and
> > allowing it to migrate.
> > 
> 
> I'd prefer the latter. It would also be nice to document changes in the
> changelog files so that ignorant people like me know why that $package
> has been recommanded.

Medhi,

Here is my reply as Nama's author.

Nama is a UI that manipulates Ecasound, an external audio
processing engine.

Ecasound has a couple different control interfaces.
libaudio-ecasound-perl offers control through a 
C-library interface, libecasoundc. 

A second interface is via socket to an Ecasound process
running in --server mode. 

Nama supports both, using libecasoundc (via
libaudio-ecasound-perl) when available, otherwise
defaulting to Net-ECI, the socket interface.

Although the two are similar, having different code paths for
achieving the same behavior is useful for troubleshooting.

Control via libecasoundc (libaudio-ecasound-perl) has 
a couple advantages that lead me to choose it as 
the preferable option (therefore recommended):

* it is more mature and well tested than my naive socket programming
* the library manages the starting and killing of the
Ecasound process

There are no changes to Nama associated with the 
"Recommends:" line, only the availability of a Debian
packaged version of interface module.

Regards,

Joel Roth
 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Mehdi Dogguy

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Joel Roth