audacity 1.3.8-1 ready for upload
Reinhard Tartler
siretart at debian.org
Sat Jul 25 15:16:13 UTC 2009
>>>> - on startup I get the following "error box":
>>>> Directory '/usr/share/audacity/help' could not be created (error 13:
>>>> Permission denied)
>>>> upon package inspection, that's right, the directory does not exist.
>>>
>>> That's strange, because the whole "debian/tmp/usr/share/audacity"
>>> directory gets installed via debian/audacity-data.install.
>>
>> can you testbuild it? that directory does not show up in my
>> .debs. Perhaps missing build-depends or build-conflicts?
>
> The directory is supposed to be created at runtime (src/FileNames.cpp:
> 123) for reasons i wasn't able to find out yet...
Discussion @upstream:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.audacity.devel/26364
Thanks, Fabian!
I find it unacceptable to have it created at runtime. If it is user
data, it should fiddle around with that below $HOME, but never in
/usr/share.
This, and the missing support for ffmpeg 0.5 make this new version of
audacity unacceptable for debian, IMO.
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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