Update to Speex

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi,

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> I just wanted to let you know that I recently split the Speex library
> into libspeex and libspeexdsp. The libspeex part contains the codec and
> is fully compatible with the 1.0 version of libspeex. The libspeexdsp
> part is basically the new (unstable0 features (preprocessor, AEC, ...)
> that appeared in the 1.1/1.2beta branch. So I guess the debian packages
> for Speex would need to be updated accordingly.
Thanks for informing us!

So, if I understand correctly, you haven't actually "splitted" the
library, just introduced a new part.
Are there any known users of libspeexdsp?

> I've also noticed that debian still has 1.1.12, so I thought it would be
> a good opportunity to update. The split version of Speex will soon be
> released as 1.2beta3. If you want to start playing with it, the current
> svn/git is quite stable and no breakage/instability is expected before
> beta3.
Debian has 1.1.12 in stable, testing and unstable but has 1.2~beta2 in
its experimental suite.
That's where all betas will be until you release the final 1.2.

Thanks again,
Faidon