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Hi dbrz

On 2018-08-16 12:33:53, dbrz wrote:
> Package: jackd2
> Version: 2:1.9.12-1~kxstudio1

This is not jackd2 as provided by Debian in the current stable release. Please
install 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-5 and try again.

> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Today, I tried to use my audio workstation (qtractor) to do some editing, 
> only to discover that Cadence had been uninstalled. I went to reinstall and 
> run it, and found that jackdbus was missing, and a cursory search revealed 
> that jackd2 was no longer on my system.
> Now, I had previously installed jackd2 as part of setting up my DAW, so this 
> seemed fishy. So I went to install it again, and found that it was missing 
> libreadline6.

libreadline6 was replaced by libreadline7 in stable. The issue is that the
version of jackd2 you've installed is not compatible with stable.

Cheers

> 
> To my utter shock, libreadline6 had packages for Sid, Jessie, and Wheezy--but 
> not for Stretch. I ended up installing an older version manually by 
> downloading the .deb from the website, which will no doubt make future 
> updates very fun.
> 
> My question is: how did this happen? Trying to install jackd2 on a fresh 
> Stretch install would have revealed this issue immediately. In fact, the 
> entire reason I'm using Debian right now is because this sort of thing is 
> actively prevented by Debian's package maintenance process. I've been 
> resisting the urge to channel the spirit of Torvalds into this email :P
> 
> Now, I *have* been installing some packages from external repos, and I've 
> been doing some fiddling with gdebi and such. But given that the required 
> dependency is literally missing from stretch's repos, something tells me 
> that's the problem.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.5
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages jackd2 depends on:
> ii  coreutils              8.26-3
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
> ii  libasound2             1.1.3-5
> ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u3
> ii  libdbus-1-3            1.10.26-0+deb9u1
> ii  libexpat1              2.2.0-2+deb9u1
> ii  libgcc1                1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
> ii  libjack-jackd2-0       2:1.9.12-1~kxstudio1
> ii  libreadline6           6.2+dfsg-0.1
> ii  libsamplerate0         0.1.8-8+b2
> ii  libsndfile1            1.0.27-3
> ii  libstdc++6             6.3.0-18+deb9u1
> ii  multiarch-support      2.24-11+deb9u3
> ii  python                 2.7.13-2
> ii  python-dbus            1.2.4-1+b1
> 
> Versions of packages jackd2 recommends:
> ii  jackd2-firewire  2:1.9.12-1~kxstudio1
> ii  libpam-modules   1.1.8-3.6
> 
> Versions of packages jackd2 suggests:
> pn  jack-tools   <none>
> pn  meterbridge  <none>
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf changed:
> @audio   -  rtprio     95
> @audio   -  memlock    unlimited
> 
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * jackd/tweak_rt_limits: true
> 

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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