[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#590064: audacious: Current version would benefit from newer version of libmowgli, coming versions depend on it

[Daniel Andersson]

Package: audacious
Severity: wishlist

libmowgli 0.6.1 is currently in Debian. 0.7.0 has been in experimental for ~2
years without propagating to unstable and beyond. Current versions of Audacious
is reported by the developers to have big performance gains if they are built
against 0.7.x instead of 0.6.x, and the current beta branch (which will become
the stable version soon enough) depend on 0.7.x.

The maintainer of libmowgli has been contacted via the BTS several times
without response: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559181 (the
first post is from an Audacious developer I believe).

Audacious would benefit from new versions of libmowgli propagating through the
system.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacious depends on:
pn  audacious-plugins             <none>     (no description available)
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  gtk2-engines-pixbuf           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.30.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
pn  libaudclient2                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  libaudcore1                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  libaudid3tag2                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.10-4   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.86-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                  2.4.0-2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmcs1                       0.7.1-1    Abstraction library to store confi
ii  libmowgli1                    0.6.1-1    a high performance development fra
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.1-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library

Versions of packages audacious recommends:
ii  unzip                         6.0-4      De-archiver for .zip files

audacious suggests no packages.