Bug#561484: audacity: Import then Export of WAV file results in file corruption

[herbie]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.5-2+lenny1
Severity: important

The default preference of audacity under import/export for working on 
uncompressed audio files is

Read uncompressed audio files directly from original (faster)

If an uncompressed audio file (say a WAV) is opened, edited, and the 
re-exported to the same filename, the resulting audio file is corrupted 
with the same audio data being written again, and again for the total 
length of the file.

I believe this issue may already have been addressed by the Audacity 
team, but see no mention of it downstream in the Debian bug-reports.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1001, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  libasound2         1.0.16-2              ALSA library
ii  libc6              2.7-18                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-4+lenny1        XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac++6         1.2.1-1.2             Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8           1.2.1-1.2             Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1            1:4.3.2-1.1           GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.16.6-2              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.12.12-1~lenny1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libid3tag0         0.15.1b-10            ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0           0.109.2-5             JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0            0.15.1b-4             MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0            1.1.3-4               Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsndfile1        1.0.17-4+lenny2       Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libsoundtouch1c2   1.3.1-2               sound stretching library
ii  libstdc++6         4.3.2-1.1             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a        1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2      1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3     1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxbase2.6-0     2.6.3.2.2-3+lenny1    wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0      2.6.3.2.2-3+lenny1    wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin                 <none>     (no description available)

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