Bug#732333: python-renpy: Ren'Py games do not produce sound and run very slowly

[Gregor Riepl]

Package: python-renpy
Version: 6.15.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

renpy 6.15.7-1, as built for and installed under Debian jessie, is almost
unusable to play games. This has been tested with Katawa Shoujo and some Winter
Wolves games.

It produces tons of error messages on the console, that impair performance. The
errors are related to sample rate conversion, leading to no sound being
produced.

The error messages are as follows:
[audioresample @ 0x7fd7b4005be0] Audio sample format conversion failed

The error is caused by a missing dependency during the build process. setup.py
tests for the existence of libavresample and proceeds without linking to it if
it can't be found. The program will build correctly, but libav won't be able to
use the resample plugin and produce the error message above.

To make it build and work correctly, please include
Build-Depends: libavresample-dev
in debian/control.

A patch is attached.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-renpy depends on:
ii  libavcodec54     6:9.10-1
ii  libavformat54    6:9.10-1
ii  libavutil52      6:9.10-1
ii  libc6            2.17-97
ii  libfreetype6     2.5.1-1
ii  libfribidi0      0.19.5-2
ii  libglew1.7       1.7.0-3
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.49-5
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-8
ii  libswscale2      6:9.10-1
ii  python           2.7.5-5
ii  python-support   1.0.15
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

python-renpy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-renpy suggests:
ii  renpy  6.15.7-1
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