audacity_1.3.6-2_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Fabian,

|--==> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:06:27 +0100, Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> said:

  FG> Hi Free,
  FG> I am currently preparing what I consider should be the next upload to
  FG> unstable. However, I have encountered an issue that I'd like to
  FG> discuss with you.

  FG> I seems that in the audacity (1.2.0-1) upload the libsamplerate
  FG> dependency has been removed, because it has been replaced by
  FG> libresample upstream. Judging from the upstream wiki
  FG> <http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libresample>
  FG> it seems that libresample has been created for the sole reason to keep
  FG> audacity license-compatible when proprietary plugins are loaded. Since
  FG> we do not ship nor explicitely support proprietary plugins in Debian,
  FG> I wonder if we shouldn't switch back to the "original" libsamplerate
  FG> and link against the shared library instead of audacity's own
  FG> libresample fork?

That makes sense to me. Have you had chance to actually try to build
it against libsamplerate and test it?

Ciao!

Free