Bug#685687: unblock: ardour/1:2.8.14-1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 14:42 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Please unblock package ardour

For the avoidance of confusion for those of us following via the list,
this never reached debian-release, probably due to the size of the
attachment.

> We have noticed that the version of ardour currently in testing doesn't
> support GUIs of LV2 plugins. This is bug #684610.
> 
> Apparently, packaging an intermediate svn revision in
> ardour/1:2.8.12+svn12923-1 has introduced this problem.
[...]
> The version in unstable is not affected. Despite the massive (12MB)
> debdiff, I thought I'd better ask for an unblock instead of shipping a
> broken package in wheezy, especially since ardour is the flagship of
> audio production on Linux.
> 
> The real diff between the two versions isn't actually that big. As
> you'll notice, the intermediate svn version contained embedded copies of
> multiple libraries and additional code that was never shipped in any
> release, hence most of the debdiff simply removes this additional code
> again.

Would it be possible to have a filtered diff that skips the embedded /
unused code removal?

Regards,

Adam