Bug#269925: ITP: portaudio -- Portable audio I/O

[Mikael Magnusson <mikma@users.sourceforge.net>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [ since OOo 1.1.5 and 2.0 are able to use portaudio/sndfile I am
> interested in this package, too ]
>
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>
> > I have uploaded an experimental version to mentors.debian.net:
> >
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/portaudio/portaudio_18.1-0.dsc
>
>
> What is the status of this ITP?

There was a problem with the license, and I don't know if it has been 
resolved.

> Sorry to say that but that package looks broken to me.
>

Is upstreams or my package broken?

> As far as I can see in the source the portaudio upstreams have no clue about
> SONAMEs.
>
> Currently, when you link against libportaudio.so, you get a dependency
> on libportaudio.so which is bad. Either we just ship the static library
> (bad also) or we "fix" it by giving the packages a halfproper SONAME.
> Looking at the source further they apparently broke API/ABI without even
> caring about SONAME stuff.
>
> I saw you copnverted the stuff using libtool and apparently gave this
> stuff the SONAME libportaudio.so.0 (judging from the package name). As I
> said, since the portaudio upstreams don't seem to care about proper
> version numbering this is risky.
>
> So, to do the second method, I did
>
> libportaudio0.0.18[-dev] and libportaudio0.0.19[-dev] packages with the
> libportaudio0.0.x as SONAME so that this works at least. 
>

I choose to name them libportaudio0[-dev] and libportaudio19-0[-dev] 
with libportaudio0 and libportaudio19-0 as SONAMEs respectively, and I 
think my naming scheme has an advantages. If portaudio v19 when release 
is backward compatible with v18, then libportaudio19-0[-dev] can be 
renamed to libportaudio0[-dev].

> I don't think this will be a nightmare judging the long release cycles -
> considering that 18.1 is years old and v19 not even released yet.
>
> Anyway, my current (source) packages are at
> http://people.debian.org/~rene/portaudio/. (I included the docs in -dev
> since it makes no sense to make a own package for that less kb...)

According to the first paragraph in Debian Policy Manual section 10.2 
"Libraries", you must compile all source twice. Isn't this required 
anymore, as I can't see this happen in your package?

Have you looked at my 20_unix_oss patch, which fixes bugs in 
Pa_StreamTime and Pa_UpdateStreamTime?

> I can upload them if wished. I also can add you as co-maintainer if you
> wish...

Maybe.

> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René

Regards,
Mikael