On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:12 +0100, Daniel James wrote: > Hi Paul, > > > About libsndfile, how about the Debian libsndfile source package is > > modified so that it produces a normal libsndfile library and a > > libsndfile-ardour for ardour to build against. > > Or how about the libsndfile1 Debian package maintainer, Anand Kumria, is > asked to apply the Ardour team's patches so that the new, improved > version of libsndfile gets some testing before the Lenny freeze? (I'm > cc'ing Anand on this mail).
The one issue with that is rather important is that the patches slightly change the semantics of libsndfile. I won't bore you with the details, unless someone asks, but suffice it to say that it allows a program using libsndfile to do something that used to return an error code. > I believe the problem is that Debian packages of Ardour end up in > Debian-derived distributions, most of which are used by people who > aren't DD's and don't use bugs.debian.org. These users are likely to > assume any problems they encounter are in the Ardour source, rather than > a result of the build or packaging process. Therefore they take their > bug reports upstream to the Ardour or distro forums, if they bother to > report the problem at all. This is precisely correct. --p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]