Bug#584605: Patch attached allows audacity to run on my system

2010-06-29 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:26:10AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote:

 Since the 'audacity' upstream does not allow individuals to create their
 own Bugzilla accounts, and I doubt that I'll be touching much 'audacity'
 code in the near future, I was hoping that one of you on the Debian team
 could use your own connections with upstream to pass along what I have
 learned.  Point them at this bug report, and make it clear that they can

I just forwarded your patch to audacity-devel with a link to our BTS.


Thanks for all your work, it was a pleasure to hunt this bug. ;)


Let's hope it gets included in the next release (should I add it to the
Debian package until then?).


Cheerio

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Bug#584605: Patch attached allows audacity to run on my system

2010-06-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt

I just forwarded your patch to audacity-devel with a link to our BTS.

Thanks for all your work, it was a pleasure to hunt this bug. ;)


Hmmm, when I looked at the upstream website and noticed they had a 
Bugzilla, I assumed that would be the most appropriate way to share my 
info.  I didn't even bother to notice their mailing lists!  (Very 
embarassing  I could easily have subscribed -- temporarily -- and 
let them know about all of this myself.)


At any rate, thanks for forwarding the info.



Let's hope it gets included in the next release (should I add it to the
Debian package until then?).


On the question of having a temporary Debian patch...  this is judgment 
call, so let's consider some facts:


1)  So far, I'm the only one reporting a segfault on startup having to 
do with the 1.3.7 - 1.3.8 open_mixer() changes


2)  I have the patch I need to make 1.3.8+ work on my hardware

In your place, my approach would be to wait to see how upstream responds 
instead of immediately producing a patched Debian package.  If upstream 
seems to be taking a long time without incorporating the change, and if 
even _one_ more bug report about the same issue hits the Debian BTS 
(which I doubt will happen), then I would release a patched package.


Naturally, I don't know (yet) about the Debian policies, practices, and 
standard operating procedures that govern decisions like this... if 
there are any.  If you are asking whether I would like to see official 
DEBs... just for me... then I say, No need!:


  $ apt-cache policy audacity
  audacity:
Installed: 1.3.12-3+fix04
Candidate: 1.3.12-3+fix04
Version table:
   *** 1.3.12-3+fix04 0
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   1.3.12-3 0
  990 http://debian.osuosl.org unstable/main Packages


Thanks (to the whole team) for all of your work,
and especially to Adrian for all of the helpful interaction,
Dave W.



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