Bug#584605: Patch attached allows audacity to run on my system

[Dave Witbrodt]

> I just forwarded your patch to audacity-devel with a link to our BTS.
>
> Thanks for all your work, it was a pleasure to hunt this bug. ;)

Hmmm, when I looked at the upstream website and noticed they had a 
Bugzilla, I assumed that would be the most appropriate way to share my 
info.  I didn't even bother to notice their mailing lists!  (Very 
embarassing....  I could easily have subscribed -- temporarily -- and 
let them know about all of this myself.)

At any rate, thanks for forwarding the info.


> Let's hope it gets included in the next release (should I add it to the
> Debian package until then?).

On the question of having a temporary Debian patch...  this is judgment 
call, so let's consider some facts:

1)  So far, I'm the only one reporting a segfault on startup having to 
do with the 1.3.7 -> 1.3.8 open_mixer() changes

2)  I have the patch I need to make 1.3.8+ work on my hardware

In your place, my approach would be to wait to see how upstream responds 
instead of immediately producing a patched Debian package.  If upstream 
seems to be taking a long time without incorporating the change, and if 
even _one_ more bug report about the same issue hits the Debian BTS 
(which I doubt will happen), then I would release a patched package.

Naturally, I don't know (yet) about the Debian policies, practices, and 
standard operating procedures that govern decisions like this... if 
there are any.  If you are asking whether I would like to see official 
DEBs... just for me... then I say, "No need!":

   $ apt-cache policy audacity
   audacity:
     Installed: 1.3.12-3+fix04
     Candidate: 1.3.12-3+fix04
     Version table:
    *** 1.3.12-3+fix04 0
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
        1.3.12-3 0
           990 http://debian.osuosl.org unstable/main Packages


Thanks (to the whole team) for all of your work,
and especially to Adrian for all of the helpful interaction,
Dave W.