Re: portaudio in arch

[Chris Brannon]

Janina Sajka  writes:

> Thanks for the correction, Chris! I'm sorry for disseminating bad
> information,

Looks like I also need to apologize and correct myself.  There actually
is a way to get the name of the maintainer of an Arch package.  Do a
search on .  When you visit the
package's page in the list of results, the maintainer's name is there,
assuming it isn't orphaned.  My other comments about recommending the
bug tracker still stand.

-- Chris

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Re: portaudio in arch

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks for the correction, Chris! I'm sorry for disseminating bad
information, but I probably wouldn't have known for quite sometime
except for this mistake and your helpful email.

Janina

Chris Brannon writes:
> Janina Sajka  writes:
> 
> > Depending on whether or not the package is installed on your Arch, one
> > of the following two commands:
> >
> > sudo pacman -Si portaudio
> >
> > sudo pacman -Qi portaudio
> 
> Janina,
> The packager info you get from pacman is just the name and address of
> the person who last built the package.  They may or may not be the
> maintainer.  When I was a TU, I built plenty of packages that had a
> maintainer other than me.  You cannot even rely on the
> # Maintainer:
> comment in the PKGBUILD files from the Arch Build System.  Running
> grep 'Brannon' /var/abs/community/*
> will turn up several packages that still have me listed as the
> maintainer, even though I haven't been a TU for several years.
> So to make a long story short, trying to figure out who maintains a
> package on Arch is nigh impossible, and the recommended way of reporting
> issues is the bugtracker.
> 
> -- Chris
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Re: portaudio in arch

[Chris Brannon]

Janina Sajka  writes:

> Depending on whether or not the package is installed on your Arch, one
> of the following two commands:
>
> sudo pacman -Si portaudio
>
> sudo pacman -Qi portaudio

Janina,
The packager info you get from pacman is just the name and address of
the person who last built the package.  They may or may not be the
maintainer.  When I was a TU, I built plenty of packages that had a
maintainer other than me.  You cannot even rely on the
# Maintainer:
comment in the PKGBUILD files from the Arch Build System.  Running
grep 'Brannon' /var/abs/community/*
will turn up several packages that still have me listed as the
maintainer, even though I haven't been a TU for several years.
So to make a long story short, trying to figure out who maintains a
package on Arch is nigh impossible, and the recommended way of reporting
issues is the bugtracker.

-- Chris

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Re: portaudio in arch

[Janina Sajka]

Fernando Botelho writes:
> So how can one find out who is in charge of portaudio in ARCH Linux?


Depending on whether or not the package is installed on your Arch, one
of the following two commands:

sudo pacman -Si portaudio

sudo pacman -Qi portaudio


This, and additional info about asking such questions on Arch is
documented. Find your pacman documentation at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

NOTE: Arch is one of the best documented Linux distributions ever, imo.
I've found it useful to bookmark links like the above, and I commend
that practice to you.

hth

Janina

> 
> it is a rolling distro, so is it even worth bothering with it, as I guess it
> will get updated sometime this month. Does anybody know when in each month
> ARCH packages get refreshed?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Fernando
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Re: portaudio in arch

[Chris Brannon]

Luke Yelavich  writes:

> You can go onto the package page for portaudio in arch and if the fix is in a 
> new upstream release, you can flag the package as out of date. Otherwise, 
> file a bug and suggest they apply the relevant patch.

Pretty much.
There's no reliable way to know who the maintainer of a package is in
Arch, and you're really not supposed to email them with this sort of
thing anyway.  As Luke said, just open a bug.  An appropriate title
would be "lockups in Portaudio after upgrading to alsa-lib 1.1.2".  Then
include links to the discussion on the Portaudio list [1], along with the
patch [2].
The bug is fixed in the current release candidate.  Hopefully that will
become an actual release soon.  I'm sure that as soon as there's a
release, someone will flag it out of date and the new version
will make it to Arch in short order.

[1] discussion of the bug:
https://lists.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2016-August/000599.html
[2] patch to fix it:
https://lists.columbia.edu/pipermail/portaudio/2016-August/000623.html

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Re: portaudio in arch

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:28:33AM AEDT, Fernando Botelho wrote:
> So how can one find out who is in charge of portaudio in ARCH Linux?
> 
> it is a rolling distro, so is it even worth bothering with it, as I guess it
> will get updated sometime this month. Does anybody know when in each month
> ARCH packages get refreshed?

You can go onto the package page for portaudio in arch and if the fix is in a 
new upstream release, you can flag the package as out of date. Otherwise, 
file a bug and suggest they apply the relevant patch.

Luke

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