Bug#733969: ardour3: FTBFS when built against libaubio4

[Paul Brossier]

Hi all,

On 01/10/2014 02:21 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Adding Paul Brossier to CC, since he maintains aubio and uploaded the
> version with the API bump.  Paul, please see/comment Adrian's mail below.
>
> From my point of view (i.e. with my release hat on), I am fine with
> either resolution the two of you come up with as long as the build
> failure here is resolved and aubio's transition is finished.
>
> ~Niels
>
> On 2014-01-09 15:28, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>> On 01/02/14 19:27, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Package: ardour3
>>> Version: 3.5.143~dfsg-1
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Your package FTBFS during a rebuilt against libaubio4.  Here is the tail
>>> from amd64.
>> aubio 0.4 is not API-compatible with the previous 0.3 release. aubio
>> upstream currently lists both APIs as stable.
>>
>> Ardour upstream has tightened the dependency to aubio 0.3.2, and it
>> certainly needs time to incorporate the API changes. For ardour2 (bug
>> #733968), this might never happen unless backported.
>>
>> There's not even a document on aubio's website how to migrate from 0.3
>> to 0.4.

point, i'm not very good at writing documentation, sorry.
>>
>>
>> Long story short: that's too much for packaging, this is serious
>> upstream work. Since Ardour upstream has decided to stick with 0.3.2, I
>> suggest we re-introduce libaubio-0.3.x in Debian until the remaining
>> users have all been transitioned to aubio4 (read: as soon as the
>> r-depends count of aubio3 drops to zero).

I'll be happy to write the patches for ardour, ardour3, and denemo.

I should be done in a few hours.

>>
>>
>> To be clear: I'm talking about co-existence of both aubio versions in
>> Debian, at least temporary.

i'll be offline starting tomorrow for 12 days. i hope to have the three
patches ready before then.

cheers, Paul